Github SSH via institute proxy, port 22 as well as port 443 blocked - ssh

There's a stackoverflow question # Github (SSH) via public WIFI, port 22 blocked, about blocked port 22, but the solution given there: port 443 is also failing for me.
All my connections to the internet go through the Institute proxy server, and it blocks all non-standard ports. I know for a fact that port 80 and port 8080 are both allowed, and all my github transactions through the https route work perfectly.
How to solve this issue?
ssh -T -p 443 git#ssh.github.com
ssh: connect to host ssh.github.com port 443: Connection refused
My proxy server is : http://10.3.100.207:8080/

I found a simple solution to my problem. Since https works perfectly for my setup and proxy, I found a way to force git to use https instead of ssh, whenever it encounters ssh urls, by executing the following 2 git config commands:
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git#github.com:
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://
This solved the problem for me.
Source: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5257

Your problem is that your connection is not going through the institute proxy server, which from your description looks like a basic HTTP proxy. Git -- and ssh -- don't know about the proxy. You have several options:
Access github using https, and let git know about the proxy server by setting the http.proxy configuration option. There are instructions for doing that here.
Configure ssh to make use of the proxy. This will require a tool like corkscrew that can forward tcp connections through an http proxy (if the proxy supports the CONNECT method). There is some useful documentation on that topic here.

Related

Gitlab change ssh port (ubuntu 22.04 LTS, gitlab-ce 15.8.1)

I'm running my own gitlab server on Oracle Cloud
and its Domain handled by Cloudflare
But my gitlab ssh cloning doesn't work at all.
(as far as I can remember, HTTP 413 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 413)
(And It also happened port 22 network unreachable error)
I think other process hold 22 port, so I tried to change gitlab ssh port to other port.
Changed gitlab.rb (gitlab_shell_ssh_port to other)
Open Oracle Cloud VCN port,
Open Ubuntu Firewall(ufw allow and also tried iptables)
And Add other port on sshd (/etc/ssh/ssh_config)
disable cloudflare DNS Proxy to DNS only.
but It doesn't work and even port is inaccessible.
more than that nothing listen on that port.
what should I do more on this?

Reverse SSH tunneling with not localhost

I have local computer and remote server. Remote server is isolated and is only accessible with this computer. I want to connect to site from server, let it be https://example.com/site
I tried to make a tunnel via ssh -R 6761:example.com:80 remote-server. But when I am trying to use wget http://localhost:6761/site on the remote server - it doesn't work and show 404 whilst wget http://example.com/site working well on local computer.
What I am doing wrong?
You cannot tunnel HTTP that way.
The name of the server you are trying to reach will be included in the request (the Host header), but it will most likely only listen to example.com, not localhost.
You will need to set up a HTTP Proxy (Forward Proxy) on your local machine and tell your http client(s) to use that. (How depends on the client.)

Forward server HTTP traffic to handle in another device via SSH Tunnel

I'm developing some webhook required direct access public domain to internal machine, thinking use SSH tunnel to forward data, or got alternative solution?
Hosting server & development machine are in same network
192.168.1.2/24 (Hosting server)
2nd machine is virtual mapping using forticlient firewall without static or dynamic IP in visible in hosting server, so is 1 way initial communication right now.
In this case possible to setup SSH tunnel forward all traffic from 192.168.1.2:80 to handle in development machine port 8080?
How to ssh syntax look like?
Thanks.
This could be done by setting up an SSH tunnel to the remote machine:
ssh -L localhost:80:localhost:8080 development-system
Every request to port 80 on the hosting-server is now forwarded to port 8080 on the development-system.
Please note, that the port 80 on the hosting-server could only be used, when you start the SSH command as root. Also note that the port 80 is only accessible from the hosting-server. To access the port 80 on the hosting-server from everywhere use the following:
ssh -L 80:localhost:8080 development-system
Be sure that you want that.
A good introduction to the topic could be found at
https://www.ssh.com/ssh/tunneling/example
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/115897/whats-ssh-port-forwarding-and-whats-the-difference-between-ssh-local-and-remot

firewall has blocked ssh. any wayarounds?

I want to connect to remote amazon aws service(EC2 instance) , and I would like to be able to ssh to it from my laptop while using the campus provided network (which has cyberoam firewall). However, they have pretty much every port blocked and ssh won't work. Is there anything i can do? does ssh run through port 80? I don't really know what to do .
All it says is :
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Software caused connection abort
ssh works elsewhere.
You can set your SSH server to use port 80 (or 443 if 80 is used for a webserver). Just check the configuration file of your ssh server for more details!

Tunnel over HTTPS

At my workplace, the traffic blocker/firewall has been getting progressively worse. I can't connect to my home machine on port 22, and lack of ssh access makes me sad. I was previously able to use SSH by moving it to port 5050, but I think some recent filters now treat this traffic as IM and redirect it through another proxy, maybe. That's my best guess; in any case, my ssh connections now terminate before I get to log in.
These days I've been using Ajaxterm over HTTPS, as port 443 is still unmolested, but this is far from ideal. (Sucky terminal emulation, lack of port forwarding, my browser leaks memory at an amazing rate...) I tried setting up mod_proxy_connect on top of mod_ssl, with the idea that I could send a CONNECT localhost:22 HTTP/1.1 request through HTTPS, and then I'd be all set. Sadly, this seems to not work; the HTTPS connection works, up until I finish sending my request; then SSL craps out. It appears as though mod_proxy_connect takes over the whole connection instead of continuing to pipe through mod_ssl, confusing the heck out of the HTTPS client.
Is there a way to get this to work? I don't want to do this over plain HTTP, for several reasons:
Leaving a big fat open proxy like that just stinks
A big fat open proxy is not good over HTTPS either, but with authentication required it feels fine to me
HTTP goes through a proxy -- I'm not too concerned about my traffic being sniffed, as it's ssh that'll be going "plaintext" through the tunnel -- but it's a lot more likely to be mangled than HTTPS, which fundamentally cannot be proxied
Requirements:
Must work over port 443, without disturbing other HTTPS traffic (i.e. I can't just put the ssh server on port 443, because I would no longer be able to serve pages over HTTPS)
I have or can write a simple port forwarder client that runs under Windows (or Cygwin)
Edit
DAG: Tunnelling SSH over HTTP(S) has been pointed out to me, but it doesn't help: at the end of the article, they mention Bug 29744 - CONNECT does not work over existing SSL connection preventing tunnelling over HTTPS, exactly the problem I was running into. At this point, I am probably looking at some CGI script, but I don't want to list that as a requirement if there's better solutions available.
Find out why the company has such a restrictive policy. It might be for a good reason.
If you still find that you want to bypass the policy, you could write a small proxy that will listen on your server on port 443 and then, depending on the request, will forward the traffic either to your web server or to the SSH daemon. There are two catches though.
To determine whether it's an HTTPS request or an SSH request, you need to try to read some data with a (small) timeout, this is because TLS/SSL handshakes start with the client sending some data, whereas the SSH handshake starts with the server sending some data. The timeout has to be big enough to delays in delivering the initial data from the client in the TLS/SSL handshake, so it'll make establishing SSH connections slower.
If the HTTP proxy in your company is smart, it'll actually eavesdrop on the expected TLS/SSL "handshake" when you CONNECT to port 443, and, when it detects that it's not an TLS/SSL handshake, it might terminate the SSH connection attempt. To address that, you could wrap the SSH daemon into an TLS/SSL tunnel (e.g., stunnel), but then you'll need to differentiate requests based on the TLS/SSL version in your client request to determine whether to route the TLS/SSL connection to the web server or to the TLS/SSL-tunneled SSH daemon.
You should be able to use iptables to forward ssh traffic from your work machines to ssh while all other machines attaching to your home server on port 443 get the Apache server.
Try a rule like this:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 111.111.111.111 --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 22
Where 111.111.111.111 is your office computer's ip address.
That all assumes you're running Linux >= 2.4, which you should be by now. It's been out for almost a decade.
Documentation for iptables is at http://www.netfilter.org.
Set up OpenVPN 2.1 server at home, use port 443 (if you set up your home any HTTPS service at port 443, trigger OpenVPN's port-share option to handle both OpenVPN and HTTPS transactions at port 443; this feature is only available to non-Windows OS)
Then, set up your OpenVPN client on your laptop in road-warrior mode to access the OpenVPN server at home. You will be able to call home or anywhere you like within a secure VPN network you've created with OpenVPN. It is no longer required to use SSH for this purpose.
I'm really sorry for being the Devil's advocate here, but if they are blocking ports at your work, its likely because they don't want people breaching security.
Now if you get permission to open a tunnel from your boss, that's fine, but IF something happens, ANYTHING, and they figure out you have a tunnel, I can almost assure you, you'll become the scapegoat. So if I were you I'd not be opening tunnels at work if they are setting up firewalls against it.
How about using 2 IP adresses on your machine?
Bind apache/https on one IP_1:443 and your sshd on the other IP_2:443?
Could you set up a middle man?
Run a small/free/cheap instance in the cloud listening on 443 for SSH, then though that cloud instance tunnel to your home box on your favorite port - 22 or whatever.
It'll add some latency I'm sure, but it solves the problem of leaving the original home setup intact.
I think you'll have to find a port that you're not using currently that you can get out on, and listen on that. 443 is the obvious candidate, but you say that's not possible. What about mail (25, 110, 143), telnet (23), ftp (21), DNS (53), or even whois (43)?
Proxy tunnel may be your answer
http://proxytunnel.sourceforge.net/
lets say my ssh server is host.domain.tld and my works proxy server is 10.2.4.37
I would add this to my local ssh config
Host host.domain.tld
ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/proxytunnel -q -p 10.2.4.37:3128 -d %h:%p
ProtocolKeepAlives 30
See:
SSH Through or Over Proxy
http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/sshproxy.html
http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/
Since apache has no problem whatsoever with CONNECT when no SSL is involved, I turn off SSL features and I use stunnel to serve an https version of my site. This does not require any recompilation, and allows your site to serve https normally. So far, the cleanest workaround I know.
See http://chm.duquesne.free.fr/blog/?p=281 for details.
Must work over port 443, without disturbing other HTTPS traffic (i.e. I can't just put the ssh server on port 443, because I would no longer be able to serve pages over HTTPS)
Is it possible to bind your HTTPS server to a different port? Depending on what it's used for, you may even be able to get around the problem of not being able to directly access it from work by just SSHing home and then using lynx from there.
So, then, give proxifier a try (- it supports HTTP Proxy Server)!
http://www.proxifier.com/documentation/intro.htm
I managed to bypass my company's firewall using the following design via AjaxTerm, it works for me.
PC on company network --> company's proxy via https --> INTERNET --> My home Apache reverse proxy server on SSL + .htpasswd protection --> AjaxTerm Server(From here on ward, I can SSH to any other servers ).
Still not the perfect world... would be good if I can can tunneling to my home network via HTTPS.