Okay, so there’s lots of you who are willing to set up their own SSH->Squid tunnels but don’t know how to do that. I’ll have to leave the house in a couple of minutes so I don’t have enough time to give instructions for every operating system / distro, but for Ubuntu (either virtual or not) it’s pretty simple:
- sudo aptitude install openssh-server squid
- Follow instructions on http://iran.sharearchy.com/ for how to edit Squid’s configuration file and then do “/etc/init.d/squid restart” (as those instructions also state)
- Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config (i.e. into a terminal type “gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config” and change the line “Port 22″ to read “Port 80″ or use some other number between 1 and 65535 that isn’t used (above 10000 you should be safe in any case). Similar to Squid, do “/etc/init.d/ssh restart”
- Using Ubuntu’s graphical tools (System->Settings->Users and Groups) create a new unpriviledged user, at best with a random password and write that down somewhere
- Send all your info (IP address of the server, username, password, port you chose and port of the Squid server, 3128 if you didn’t change it) to Austin Heap or whoever you know can pass it on. IMPORTANT: don’t communicate that information through any public channels as the Iranian security forces ARE watching!
- In the case that you’re using your home internet line for this, your router will have to be configured to forward the port you chose to the box that runs the proxy. For most routers this is easy and can be configured under something called “Virtual Servers” or “NAT”.
Freedom for Iran!