ssh -T git@github.com<\/code> and because port 22 is blocked it failed to connect, returning the error message:<\/p>\nssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Bad file number<\/pre>\nTo make Git work on Windows, through port 443 and a HTTP proxy server – with proxy authentication (Intergrated) – the following worked for me:<\/p>\n
\n- Create a new file named config<\/strong> inside your ~\/.ssh\/<\/strong> folder.
\nThis is usually located here:\u00a0C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\.ssh\\<\/strong><\/li>\n- Paste the following code into your config<\/strong> file.\n
\r\nProxyCommand connect.exe -H proxy_user@proxy_server:proxy_port %h %p\r\n\r\nHost github.com\r\nUser git\r\nHostname ssh.github.com\r\nPreferredAuthentications publickey\r\nIdentityFile ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa\r\nPort 44<\/pre>\nUpdate the ProxyCommand values:<\/p>\n
proxy_user:<\/strong> your proxy username
\nproxy_server:<\/strong> your proxy server
\nproxy_port:<\/strong> your proxy port<\/p>\n%h<\/strong> and %p<\/strong> will be replaced on invoking proxy command with the target hostname and port specified to the SSH command.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nCreating this config file allowed me to successfully connect to GitHub at work.
\nI do have to authenticate with my proxy password every time I connect though. If you know a secure way to store the proxy password please comment.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Sam vdb’s answer<\/a> on stackoverflow and @skim’<\/a>s blog post here<\/a> for the solution.<\/p>\n
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