Automate Setting and Removing of SSH tunnel SOCKS Proxy in Ubuntu.

removeproxy.sh

# Author : Mohammed Ajmal
# GNU Public License

# Tested to work well in Ubuntu 16.04
# use ` chmod +x removeproxy.sh ` to give executable permissions

gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'none'

setproxy.sh

# Author : Mohammed Ajmal
# GNU Public License

# Tested to work well in Ubuntu 16.04
# use ` chmod +x setproxy.sh ` to give executable permissions

# Set these variables for your SSH server 
# LOCAL_PORT is the port at which SOCKS proxy tunnels connections to SSH server 
# USER is username of account in the SSH server 
# SSH_SERVER is server address

# Check removeproxy.sh for proxy removal script

LOCAL_PORT=8080
USER=root
SSH_SERVER=1.1.1.1

gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port ${LOCAL_PORT}
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 'localhost'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts "['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', '::1']"

ssh -D $LOCAL_PORT $USER@$SSH_SERVER