feature(user) Add legacy user scripts

[BK-2020-03.git] / user / bkwpe

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