openssh unix dev - Sep 2000 - SSH proxy or gateway?

I'm wondering if there is a proxy version for SSH, but not
in the usual way that some people have attempted.  I was
thinking of:

user <-via clear-> telnet/SSH proxy <-via SSH-> server

This requires no changes to client, except that the
client needs to know to telnet to the SSH proxy and
open a connection outward from there, similar to FWTK
telnet proxy (which is a great proxy!)  The other
alternative, which I'm using now is:

user <-via SSH-> dumb plug/filter <-via SSH-> server

Not nice.  Any thoughts, comments?  One way to do
this (which I saw in the archives, and may be more
widely applicable):

user <-via SSH-> Server Proxy
                 Client Proxy <-via SSH-> server

I don't need this because connections on the inside don't
need to be authenticated.  But, even this option is not
ready yet (I believe)?

Any help?  Thanks!

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, C. Regis Wilson wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a proxy version for SSH, but not
> in the usual way that some people have attempted.  I was
> thinking of:
> 
> user <-via clear-> telnet/SSH proxy <-via SSH-> server
 
You could accomplish this by putting users in you password file 
with a custom shell. The custom shell would automatically open 
a SSH connection to the server.

-d


-- 
| ``The power of accurate observation is  | Damien Miller <djm at
mindrot.org>
| commonly called cynicism by those who   | @Work <djm at ibs.com.au>
| have not got it'' - George Bernard Shaw | http://www.mindrot.org