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ams6110 on Feb 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transparent Multi-Hop SSH

I do this to access work machines from home. The only problem with the technique is that some organizations and malware detection software consider netcat to be a "hacking" tool and remove it. This is particularly common on Windows servers.

Newer OpenSSH has a netcat mode built-in http://blog.rootshell.be/2010/03/08/openssh-new-feature-netc...

sciurus on Feb 6, 2012 [–]

With -W, the articles examples could be rewritten to

  Host ruapehu
    HostName ruapehu.example.com

  Host aoraki
    ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p ruapehu

  Host tongariro
    ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p aoraki

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