user/bkwpe

   1 #!/bin/bash
   2
   3 # 2019-08-14T21:58:08Z; baltakatei>
   4
   5 # The purpose of this script is to open a session of firefox dedicated
   6 # to editing wikipedia from a remote machine with a public IP address
   7 # not on Wikipedia's blocklist.
   8
   9 # This script:
  10 #   1. Creates ssh proxy to remote server
  11 #   2. Starts Firefox by calling a local installation of firefox via
  12 #     its own startup script.
  13
  14 # Note: This script does not automatically initialize the default
  15 # Firefox profile with the correct SOCKS5 settings as can be seen in
  16 # "Connection Settings" ("Manual proxy configuration", SOCKS
  17 # Host="127.0.0.1", Port="8080"). These changes must be made manually
  18 # until an automated method for applying SOCKS settings via edits to
  19 # `prefs.js` in the default Firefox profile.
  20
  21 # Reference:
  22
  23 # SSH CONNECTION SETTINGS
  24 REMOTE_USER=baltakatei
  25 REMOTE_IP=76.102.50.36
  26 REMOTE_PORT=63865
  27 LOCAL_PROXY_PORT=8080
  28
  29 # STEP 1: Start an SSH master connection (-M)
  30 #         in the background (-f)
  31 #         without running a remote command (-N)
  32 ssh -p $REMOTE_PORT -M -o ControlPath=/tmp/socks.%r@%h:%p -f -N -D $LOCAL_PROXY_PORT -C $REMOTE_USER@$REMOTE_IP
  33
  34 # STEP 2: Launch Firefox in the foreground
  35 #/home/baltakatei/Desktop/firefox/firefox -P -no-remote
  36 /home/baltakatei/Desktop/firefox/firefox -no-remote
  37
  38 # STEP 3: When user is done with Firefox, send an "exit" command to the master connection
  39 ssh -p $REMOTE_PORT -o ControlPath=/tmp/socks.%r@%h:%p -O exit $REMOTE_USER@$REMOTE_IP