how to make x2go connect to onion ssh

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Hi.

  1. I have ssh working through onion - good.
    all including ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -x localhost:9050 %h %p stuck in the .ssh/config - great

  2. x2go server installed (I cannot find if I should do anything beyond that on whonix workstation)

  3. on my mac workstation I have xquartz and x2go

  4. the remote administration section in the documentation suggests to provide onion address in the connection settings but naturally my mac has no idea how to understand it.

what do I do wrong?

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Use Whonix for both, the client and the server.

Otherwise you’ll be trying to run complex applications without Whonix, which is a recipe for disaster, i.e. IP leaks.

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I see the merit of this approach - kind of
my threat level is not too high
say I want to use nostr anonymously
I can run web client in tor browser - that’s probably already good enough.
if the client can also resolve onion relays - even better
but that still involves some javascript that I am not comfortable with

I can run desktop client piped through tor
I can maybe try to run desktop client in tails
or I can run desktop client in whonix and expose the screen through x2go

surely the last option is not best
even storing an onion address to my ssh port is a risk
but one I mam willing to take
so … how would I configure that?

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This is a MacOS question / Tor question. Not a Whonix specific question. Therefore this is the wrong forum to ask about this as this isn’t a MacOS support forum.

Unspecific to Whonix.

Needs to be resolved as per:

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Trying to respond I realised it is a question about the Whonix documentation - not the Whonix a such.
I agree it is not a question to a Whonix developer and there is not hing wrong with Whonix - I rather hoped for the community to help.
I raised the question because a guide included in the Whonix documentation does not seem to work - not in my case.
You are correct, it could work as a remote administration of Whonix from another Whonix. Obviously in that case DNS should recognise onion address and correct x2go client without any issue.
However my example seems to be more likely use case - remote administration from non-whonix machine. This definitely works in case of ssh connection - described on the same page.