SSH on a mac

Hi everyone,

I have open SSH running on my linux server at home (which I forwarded to listen on port 443 as port 22 is often blocked).

When running windows on my laptop I open up Putty; configure it to listen on my domain name, setup the socks proxy and forward a port like 8080. Then I have another profile configured in firefox where it goes through the socks proxy and uses port 8080 to tunnel all internet traffic to my home computer.

I have tried doing something like this in terminal:

ssh -P 443 -l 8080 username@mydomainname

However I am not able to get firefox to use port 8080.

I would appreciate any help (relatively new to osx).

 

Sorry, I guess I wasn't very clear but you have understood it correctly.

I am able to configure firefox (I think) - I think the problem may lie in me not knowing the correct line of code to put into terminal.

I want it to connect to my domain which is on port 443 (I think this part is correct as a simple ssh -p 443 username@domain gives me access to ls the files. However, I want to configure a local port which firefox will go through. On windows I open putty goto the SSH tunnel settings and enter a port number for source port and click on dynamic - I am unsure of how to do this in terminal.

Thanks for the reply

Edit: Just found this on google will let you know if it works:

You can use the “-D” flag of openssh to create a SOCKS proxy.

The command first:
$ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server

 

Yep, the -D flag!

I have it working now, thanks very much to both of you.

Another reason why I love OSX - the mighty terminal!