You may find the need to tunnel your internet traffic encrypted through a server that you own and trust. You can do this with a VPN but their IP addresses are often blacklisted and are also particularly slow. <\/p>\n
You may choose to do this for security, you may want to hide your torrent traffic from your ISP, you may want to appear to have a different IP address, perhaps to watch your UK TV while abroad maybe?<\/p>\n
If you have access to a VPS or dedicated server, even a standard PC running linux connected to the internet with a fast internet connection then here’s what you can do!<\/p>\n
First of all let’s create the tunnel user and restrict them to rbash only<\/p>\n
useradd tunneluser1 -m -d \/home\/tunneluser1 -s \/bin\/rbash\r\npasswd tunneluser1<\/pre>\nIf you don’t use private \/ public keys then you’re all good to go with standard password based logon.<\/p>\n
Follow the guide for using putty as a local HTTP(S) proxy<\/a> and you’re all set!<\/p>\n
If you want to use private \/ public keys then login as that user via shell and create the .ssh directory.<\/p>\n
mkdir .ssh\r\nchmod 700 \/home\/tunneluser1\/.ssh<\/pre>\nNow we need to create the authorized_keys file and paste the key information inside<\/p>\n
vi \/home\/tunneluser1\/.ssh\/authorized_keys<\/pre>\nPaste your key and save the file, then set the permission to 600<\/p>\n
chmod 600 \/home\/tunneluser1\/.ssh\/authorized_keys<\/pre>\nFinished, now follow the guide for using putty as a local HTTP(S) proxy<\/a> and you’re all set!
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