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How to SSH an outside server from a computer which is behind a proxy firewall?

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Mar 15, 202611599 views
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I access the Internet through an HTTP proxy firewall at college. And I need to login to a computer, via SSH, which is outside our network. I tried it as Linux command and on Windows using PuTTY. I also configured PuTTY to use our server's address. But still, "Proxy error: 403 forbidden" pops up. Th…

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It may be that the proxy is only allowing access to HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 or 443). I've worked around that by changing the SSH server to listed on port 443. That made the proxy I had to go through allow the connection, but if you can't change the SSH…

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