I've been flopping around for past day, trying to figure it out myself and i guess i need some help...

My desired setup:

User uses Putty to ssh to the Debian server and logs in with user/password.
putty tunnels port 443 so i can connect to the socks5 server via the ssh secure connection.

Debian Server has OpenSSH, Webmin & squid

Client -> (Putty SSH [443 tunnel]) -> Server (Proxy) -> Inet

Now Id like only authenticated users who've connected to the server via putty ssh allowed access to the socks5 server proxy.

I think I got the client part waxed, but server part im a bit lost.

Any help/pointers would be extremely helpful

I did a similar thing to set $PS1 to a specific thing if logging in via ssh, I tested whether $SSH_TTY existed; if it did, the user has SSH'd in.

That may be a good jumping off point for you

Thanks, as i am a web developer on vbscript side, i think i understand what your saying, nut not how to impliment.

What comes to mind is that one must probably have a script that on login, check $SSH_TTY.

Ill have to google and see what comes up under scripts.

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Isn't that what objShell.exec does in vbscript? Of course, stick something like the following in .bashrc

and have a script remove it at logout/ garbage collection. Then read the file in vbscript, and catch the file exception. This is, to be honest, the way you probably shouldn't do it- but in a purely bash solution...

hehe, just mentioned i have some programming experiance... not that im using vbscript here.

Just pure linux and the above mentioned progs...

My next step is to get the proxy working along with only allowing the ssh connected users.. so there your $SSH_TTY will probably come in ...