Hi everyone, I am new here and I am very new to be working with SSH Problem: I need to establish a session within a session. The first connection goes to a remote box. The second connection goes to that same box but within the previously established shell and from there to another machine in another location, I am tunneling SOCKS5 programs through the second session. How I did it before: Until now, I have used Putty twice (on windows XP) to do that but since I switched over to Linux Ubuntu, I am using the pure command line. So far, I have been able to establish the first session by doing: ssh -D 1088 -p 443 username@remoteboxIP Previously on XP, I would now open the second putty session configured as follows: Under Session: IP_of_second_remote_box | Port 443 | SSH Under: Connection--Proxy: SOCKS 5 | Proxy Hostname: 127.0.0.1 | Port 8888 Can you point out what the equivalent command line input would have to be ? Thanks for the help :)) PS: sorry if this question is too trivial ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ