SSH Tunnels How-to?

From the comments in http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/19/2218226

by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2006, @06:23PM (#14514191)

1. Set up usual SSH session settings in Putty
2. Go to Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels
3. Add new forwarded port. Source Port: 1080, Destination: [blank], DYNAMIC (this is important), Auto. Click on Add.
4. In Firefox or any other program that supports a SOCKS proxy, enter host 127.0.0.1 (localhost) with port 1080.

by Chris Pimlott (16212) on Thursday January 19 2006, @11:30PM (#14516257)

To do the same with the command line OpenSSH client:

ssh -N -f -D 1080

-D 1080 does the dynamic socks forwarding.
-N says don't run any command on the remote machine
-f says go into the background after asking for password
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