This post provides a straightforward method to connect your ssh client through a local socks5 proxy. It’s quite simple, if you have a socks5 server listening on your local port, say, 8888: ssh -l login -p ssh_server_port -o ProxyCommand='nc --proxy-type socks5 --proxy 127.0.0.1:8888 %h %p' ssh_server_host_name If you are not using nmap’s netcat utility, you may try: ssh -l login -p ssh_server_port