using transparent gateways to the launchpad platform?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Denys Duchier
<denys.duchier at univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
>
>> You might want to look at something like this:
>> http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/sshproxy.html
>
> Going through the http gateway does not work (it is also a cache).  The
> only way (also confirmed by discussing it with the IT dpt implementing
> network security regulations on campus) is for me to set up specific
> host/port forwarding to select outside services.  This is easy to do
> with ssh on gateways where I am authorized, the only problem is to
> provide transparency to the students. This is the issue that I need to
> address now.

in .ssh/config

Host bazaar.launchpad.net
  hostname GATEWAY
  user STUDENTUSERID
  ProxyCommand ssh bazaar.launchpad.net nc -q0 %h %p

-Rob