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Enable/disable ssh SOCKS proxy tunnel on mac
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README.md

To create a SOCKS proxy which tunnels all of your traffic through ssh, you have to go to System preferences > Network > Wi-fi > Proxies > SOCKS-Proxy

Here enter localhost as host and 8080 as port. Don't enable the checkbox, at SOCKS-Proxy, the script takes care of that.

Create the file tunnel.sh and make it executable (chmod +x tunnel.sh). To establish the connection, run ./tunnel.sh - now everything uses the ssh-tunnel. To kill it, press ctrl + C.

This is useful to hop on a trusted environment in public wifis.

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#!/bin/bash
#creates a socks-proxy via ssh-tunnel for fast internet-access
#turn on proxy
sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate Wi-Fi on
#create tunnel (this is blocking)
ssh -D 8080 -C -N <USER>@<HOST>
#turn off proxy
sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate Wi-Fi off
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