How to Make SSH Connection via Tor

Often, ISP doesn't allow us to reach our computers using normal IP or IPv6 and cuts ports using NAT. Here is a guide how to overpass this problem using Tor.

First, install Tor in all computers you want to get connected (search instruction for your distribution; in Debian-like systems, it's simply apt install tor, see link). Make sure if Tor is running using sudo /etc/init.d/tor status, if not run sudo /etc/init.d/tor start
In computers you want to use as servers, you should run an ssh server. Here are instructions for Debian-like systems. Check if it's running: sudo /etc/init.d/ssh status.

To reach you ssh server via tor you need to have these lines uncommented or added in /etc/tor/torrc:

	HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_ssh_service/
        HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:22

Restart Tor and SSH servers:

	sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
	sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart

You can find the hostname in /var/lib/tor/hidden_ssh_service/hostname . It's in format xyz.onion - it can be very long string.
Now, you can easily reach the server from any client with Tor running. You simply need to use torsocks or torify (almost no difference, torsocks is preferably) commands, e.g.:
```
	torsocks ssh myusername@xyz.onion
	torsocks scp myusername@xyz.onion:/tmp/filename.txt ~/
      
```

You may make your life easier by using aliases for your hosts. First install connect-proxy. Then, simply, edit your ~/.ssh/config file adding something like this:

	
host myhost
   user myusername
   hostname xyz.onion
   ProxyCommand connect-proxy -a none -S 127.0.0.1:9050  %h %p

Now, you can easily reach your host using the myhost alias. E.g.,

    ssh myhost
    scp file.txt myhost:~/
    rsync -avzr --progress --size-only ~/books/ myhost:~/allbooks

You can try to make a bookmark in your file manager. In my Caja, it works like this: go to File → Connect to Server: