[ale] ssh -D : the Coolest ssh trick yet.

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 20 March 2003 09:08 am, John Wells wrote:
> In response to a question of mine awhile back, Jason Day pointed out the
> -D flag to ssh, which allows ssh to function as a Socks v4 proxy.

<snip>

> So, it's as simple as connecting to your home machine using the -D flag,
> followed by a port number that's not in use on your local machine.
>
> ssh -D 5555 mylogin at my.homemachine.org

<snip again>

> Make sure you don't close the terminal that's logged into your home
> machine while you're using this feature.

I think that the -N flag takes care of that.  Something like:
	ssh -N -D 5555 mylogin at my.homemachine.org &
should survive killing the terminal.

Michael
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