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Re:Show HN: A simple SSH VPN client by sharjeelsayed on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:11PM (#14832942)
This creates an Auto closing SSH Tunnel (Tunnel will close if Chrome exits) to a remote ssh server and redirect to localhost on port 7070 and launch Chrome Portable using local port 7070 as socks 5 proxy

The following command is for cygwin on Windows.Can be customised for Mac OS or Linux

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -C -f -q -D 7070 username@servername sleep 10 ; "/cygdrive/c/PortableApps/GoogleChromePortable/GoogleChromePortable.exe" --proxy-server="socks5://localhost:7070" &

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Re:Show HN: A simple SSH VPN client by zenlikethat on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:33PM (#14833059)
Probably shouldn't turn off StrictHostKeyChecking. SSH will prompt to confirm the fingerprint if needed.
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Re:Show HN: A simple SSH VPN client by jsnathan on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:58PM (#14833187)
You might also want to pass --host-resolver-rules="MAP * 0.0.0.0 , EXCLUDE localhost" to Chrome to avoid leaking DNS queries [1].

Edit: typo

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network...

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