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SOCKS Proxy via SSH reverse tunnel

I was working on some test servers on which access is highly restricted (only SSH over VPN) and I couldn’t ask for proxy permissions for outbound HTTP connections so I wasn’t able to use any repo needed to install or upgrade software.

My laptop can access the Internet so it could act as proxy but I didn’t know how to redirect traffic from the remote server to my local machine.

And here’s where I “met” the SSH reverse tunneling, which allows to connect via SSH to a remote server and tell it to forward all the TCP connections received on a specific port, to another host.

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Using DNF with a proxy

Edit the /etc/dnf/dnf.conf file, adding these parameters in the [main] section:

proxy=http://proxy.compukitty.net:9090
proxy_username=compuk
proxy_password=compukpass

proxy_username and proxy_password are optional, based on your proxy server configuration.