Using Cygwin SSH with Putty Pageant

On windows I mostly use Putty as my SSH client. But in some cases for example when I use unison or rsync I use the ssh client from cygwin.

Following good practice I use public key authentication and Putty's Pageant to manage my password protected keys. This works great with Putty and Plink. I [...]

Automatically start SCREEN on SSH login

I just found a nice method to invoke screen automatically if after login via SSH. So you don't have to manually start it first.

Put the following at the end of your ~/.bashrc

# Auto-screen invocation. see: http://taint.org/wk/RemoteLoginAutoScreen # if we're coming from a remote SSH connection, in an interactive session # then automatically [...]

Use SSH as SOCKSv5 Proxy to securely surf the web

Many know that SSH offers the possibility to forward single ports over a secure connection. What many people don't know is that SSH can work as SOCKSv5 proxy. This way you can securely surf the web from any public WLAN.

ssh -D8080 username@my-server.ch

This way you have a SOCKSv5 proxy on localhost:8080. You now [...]