git socks proxy with ssh2

December 3, 2008 @ 4:19 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Rufus Cable at ThreeBytesFull posted a helpful writeup on using a SOCKS proxy for git access from behind a corporate firewall.

In my corporate environment, we don’t use OpenSSH, but rather Reflection for Secure IT, which is ssh2. The only change I had to make from his instructions was in the socks-ssh wrapper script—using the SocksServer config option instead of ProxyCommand:



#!/bin/sh

# Filename: ~/bin/socks-ssh

# This script opens an SSH connection through a SOCKS server

ssh -o 'SocksServer http://myproxy.mycompany.com/' $@

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