whatismyip.com can detect that I'm running tinyproxy...?

[sirspazzolot]

is there a more covert method or alternative? ssh tunneling does work but I'm a little reluctant to give people ssh access to my server, unless I can figure out how to create a user with no privileges whatsoever.

[sirspazzolot]

oh, nobody wants to help. that's disappointing.

[lisati]

Just an observation: some proxies are easier to detect than others. Some of the differences are described here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/proxy-server

edit: This page is able to use the information provided by some proxies.

[CharlesA]

is there a more covert method or alternative? ssh tunneling does work but I'm a little reluctant to give people ssh access to my server, unless I can figure out how to create a user with no privileges whatsoever.

You can always use the forcecommand to create a user account that can only use ssh for tunneling.

Either that or just do a chroot jail, so they cannot mess with the system.

EDIT: Found a good thread about it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1627240