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I'm having a hard time understanding why torsocks/torify isn't working in this particular case.

 torify ssh user@remotemachine
 torsocks ssh user@remotemachine

When I do the following command when I get in my actual IP is printed:

echo $SSH_CLIENT
# [my actual IP + remote/local ports]

But if I do 

ssh -o ProxyCommand='nc -x localhost:9050 %h %p' user@remotemachine # 9050 being the SOCKSPort

then I get the tor ip. What gives? What am I missing about how torify/torsocks and/or ssh works?

Contents of torsocks.conf:

TorAddress 127.0.0.1
TorPort 9050              # matches tor's SOCKSPort

edit: I should mention that I'm on MacOS and cannot torify/torsocks /usr/bin/ssh directly since /usr/bin is protected by Apple's System Integrity Protection so I copy it into /tmp/ssh first. I don't imagine that would change anything but don't know what I don't know so...

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Try to use full path to your ssh copy like this:

torify /tmp/ssh user@remotemachine
torsocks /tmp/ssh user@remotemachine
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  • I do that already. The code I put in my question was the simplest presentation of the problem (perhaps too simplified). I'm not at all familair with Apple's System Integrity Protection system but it prevents binaries in /usr/bin (like curl and ssh) from being used with torify/torsocks.
    – PistoletPierre
    Oct 21, 2018 at 15:05
  • I don't know Apple at all but maybe /tmp is not the best choice for exeutables. Have you checked this: lorenzo.mile.si/…?
    – Tomek
    Oct 21, 2018 at 15:26
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From HowToForge:

Add this to your ~/.ssh/config/

Host anon_*
CheckHostIP no
Compression yes
Protocol 2
ProxyCommand connect -4 -S localhost:9050 $(tor-resolve %h localhost:9050) %p
Host anon_mydomain
HostName mydomain.com
User myaccount
Host anon_mydomain2
HostName mydomain2.com
User myaccount
Port 980
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