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[jey]

How to start a SOCKS proxy on localhost:12345 proxying through your account foo on bar.example.com:

  ssh -D 12345 -N -f foo@bar.example.com

[jjcm → jey]

Tip: you can group the flags together like so:

    ssh -fND 12345 foo@bar.example.com

Also, the -f flag will cause it to fail if you don't have passwordless auth set up. If you don't have it set to use private/public key pairs, just tunnel like so:

    ssh -ND 12345 foo@bar.example.com

[jey → jjcm]

Nah, -f will prompt for password before backgrounding the process.

[hung020185 → jey]

ssh -D 12345 -N -f foo@bar.example.com