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Socket Secure [SOCKS], an Internet protocol that routes network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. [SOCKS5] additionally provides authentication

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How to use Socks5 across the whole system like a VPN?

I'm looking for a way to use configured a Socks5 across the whole system including terminals, apps, browsers, etc. For instance, I run a socks5 proxy on my localhost on port 1080 using V2ray or ...
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can you set socks5 proxy from Linux command line?

I've managed to set a socks5 proxy server from Linux towards another server like this : ssh -D 9090 -N -f [email protected] Then I changed the settings in mozilla browser to use the socks proxy, and ...
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Is SOCKS4/5 supported by apt?

The manpage for apt.conf doesn't mention SOCKS at all. Yet there are a few questions about SOCKS and apt here, and every now and then I see an answer which has something like: Acquire::http::proxy .. ...
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Slack desktop client with socks proxy

How can I configure slack desktop client to use a socks proxy?
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command to set socks proxy

I'm using socks proxy over ssh tunnel ssh -D 1080 -f -C -q -N <user>@<server> when I set the proxy in System settings > Network > Network proxy, all applications like Chromium, ...
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Can I use manual socks proxy for only specific sites?

I am using socks proxy with chrome. With dconf editor, I can add ignore-host so that browser connect this hosts without proxy. Now I want to do opposite of this. I mean I want to specify hosts so that ...
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ssh-tunneled SOCKS proxy connection refusals on Firefox 47.0 / Kubuntu 16.04

I am having difficulty making connections to websites using Firefox over a tunneled SOCKS proxy. SOCKS4/SOCKS5 makes no difference. I set up the tunnel with ssh -D 1234 [email protected] ...
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SOCKS proxy to SSH server behind HTTP proxy

I set up a SOCKS proxy at port 9090 to computer B elsewhere: ssh -D localhost:9090 user@B and configured it in my local Google Chrome browser. However, computer B is behind an HTTP proxy, so HTTP ...
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Run Tor as Client Only

I'm running tor with the following command: tor --ClientOnly 1 --RunAsDaemon 1 --CookieAuthentication 0 --ControlPort 8119 --PidFile tor1.pid --SocksPort 9051 --DataDirectory data/tor/tor1 This ...
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Does creating a SOCKS proxy via ssh hide my activities from my ISP?

I've been using an ssh tunnel for browsing, reading that doing so would encrypt the connection to the internet. However, i have no idea as to what kind of protection that the ssh tunnel really provide....
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From WAN, VNC fails to connect through ssh 5900 tunnel if not also proxied locally

On my local network, I can VNC-over-an-ssh-tunnel quite easily. I wish to do the same from abroad. The server is set up to accept WAN-side ssh connections, and this works reliably. The problem is, ...
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What does StackApplet "Network Error" mean?

I just installed StackApplet StackApplet 1.5 using the debian package from the launchpad site. When I first clicked on the preferences button in the menu it tried opening http://localhost:8150/ in ...
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Telegram calls via Dante socks5 proxy server not working

I've confugured Dante 1.4on Ubuntu 16.04 as a socks5 proxy for Telegram. Chats are working, but voice calls are not, failing at "Connecting". Is there something special I need to configure in order ...
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Problem with proxy after installing tor

Recently I installed Tor on my ubuntu(17.10) and then I figured it out that Tor has set to the wide computer's internet. HTTP = 127.0.0.1:8118 SOCKS = 127.0.0.1:9050 When I disable the proxy in ...
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Why doesn't tsocks work with apt-get?

I am using tsocks to socksify my connections. When I run the following commands, apt-get isn't socksified: $ . tsocks -on $ sudo apt-get update However, when I run the whole thing in one line like ...
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Curl and system proxy

I am currently forwarding all my traffic through a ssh tunnel: ssh -ND 8080 user@remote-machine And have set the system socks5 proxy (in system settings under network section) to 127.0.0.1:8080. ...
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How to use TOR SOCKS proxy for apt-get?

I am running tor browser in my Ubuntu 14.04 and and after successful connection I used socks proxy which is 127:0.0.1:9150 in my browser and it worked fine. But when I put Acquire::socks::proxy "socks:...
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How do I turn Ubuntu 12.04 server into an open SOCKS5 proxy?

I'd like to set up a socks5 proxy based on my ubuntu 12.04 server. I've read that this is supposed to be easy and doable with one command: ssh -f -N -D 0.0.0.0:1080 localhost Not so much in my case ...
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How can I route all of a VM's traffic through a VPN connection?

The main thing I've tried was opening VirtualBox and using File -> Preferences -> Proxy -> Manual Proxy Configuration to set my host to 10.8.0.1 and its port to 1080, since this is the info for ...
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Dante socks error "local client closed" and "0: local client error (Connection reset by peer)"

I have installed and to my best knowledge configured Dante to use Socks5 on it. However I still can't connect to it using anything. I get a bung of different errors in the socks.log file. My sockd....
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Ubuntu Server (14.04 LTS) System-Wide Socks5 Auth Proxy

I have recently switched to the server version of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and am not aware of a way to apply a system-wide authentication socks5 proxy so that all traffic on that computer goes through the ...
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Setting up Dante on Ubuntu Server 12.04

I'm trying to set up and configure socks5 server that requires authentication. I've got dante to run on ubuntu and set up configuration to be able to connect without authentication first: internal: ...
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Ssh proxy server

Hi I have Ubuntu server. I want to install a ssh proxy server like below. https://cyberssh.com/ssh/region/europe I want use eproxy APK. Port 443 Socks5 Local port 1080 Udp port 7300
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Having issues creating a SOCKS5 Proxy. Can not Tunnel device

I have a desktop machine in my home which ive turned into a Ubuntu (desktop 14 LTS) SSH server using OPENssh. I can SSH into my machine locally using public key authentication (&Putty from my win8....
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how to set socks proxy with username and password in the proxy setting

i have a proxy server exampleuser:examplepassword@serverip:serverport and i want to use it with the network proxy server in setting>network>proxy but using exampleuser:examplepassword@serverip ...
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My system is creating 1GB of syslog file Docker errors per minute

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Recently whenever I start my PC, I get a error message saying 0 bytes left in your /root directory. I used the du command and found out that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/...
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How to tunnel a tunneled connection?

I have a remote server A to which I have root access and there is server B in my local network to which I have non-sudo ssh access. And I have client C which is an ubuntu laptop to which I have root ...
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Upgraded to 16.04 and now chjail ssh forwarding doesn't work

I've been doing tunneling of my web traffic for years now using the PuTTY -> Ubuntu server -> internet method for a while. (BTW, the article linked is not the article I specifically used WAY back in ...
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Sharing Tor socksport via wired ethernet connection?

Using Ubuntu 16.04 on both machines. I've been able to share my VPN IP between devices with an ethernet cable. The host running VPN and Tor: IPv4 Settings: "Shared to other computers" IP Address: ...
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Set up Bandwidth Limiting Proxy?

I want to set up a proxy on an ubuntu box for my brother to torrent through and then be able to limit the bandwidth with the proxy. I have tried looking for how to do this, but to no avail.
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export SOCKS_SERVER not working

I try $ export socks_proxy=127.0.0.1:9150 and $ wget http://icanhazip.com/ but still show previous IP (icanhazip.com show IP). Tor working correctly on Firefox.
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Using FireFox containers with multiple socks5 proxies with usernames and passwords

Using FireFox containers with multiple socks5 proxies with usernames and passwords I'm setting up Firefox containers which I want to use multiple different socks5 proxies for different web sites. How ...
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channel 34: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

I'm using a ssh-tunnel to a server (Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64) with a socks5 proxy. To build up the connection I'm using the following command: ssh -D 62378 [email protected] The socks5 ...
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connect to an authenticating sock5 proxy?

anyone has successfully connected to authenticating sock5 proxy server? firefox seems not to support username/password fields when configuring sock5 proxies (see this bug, they have a patch but they ...
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Browse internet through another host without having external public ip on any host

I need to browse several websites (that also have flash content) through my home internet, while im in my work place. So from the website servers they see only access from my home IP. There is no ...
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Do you need a shell program for Proxy Forwarding?

I am trying to set up a secure proxy for my work. This article suggests using SSH Tunnel + SOCKS Proxy Forwarding. Do I need to have access to a certain shell program on the server? I have bash, tcsh, ...
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How to use Socks5 on a browser?

I have an Ubuntu virtual server and I want to proxy my browser using extensions like Proxy SwitchyOmega or FoxyProxy. using the following command: ssh -D 32145 root@ip I ssh to the server and set the ...
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How can I set up socks5 proxy with authentication?

I have a socks5 proxy with user password authentication. I want to set it for my full system network traffic. How can I do that? I tried proxychain, but it only works for the command line. I need to ...
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How to limit count of ssh port forwarding per user

i want to limit a nologin system user to make one, or two ssh tunnel. this user use ssh system-user@server-ip -D 1080 -N command need something like maxlogins in limits.conf is there any way to do ...
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dynamically port forward for by passing Internet censorship

I want to make SSH port forwarding to solve and bypass censorship. I saw many examples and Youtube but I can't get what I want. Every month I must purchase a new VPS due to an advanced filtering ...
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berkeley socket programming issues - <netinet.h> not found

My standard socket stuff doesnt work anymore on Ubuntu 20.04.4 - <netinet.h> not found. This then leads to definition errors of sockaddr. s.c:22:14: error: ‘struct sockaddr’ has no member named ‘...
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Dante Server not Installing

I'm a beginner at Ubuntu and have made quite a silly mistake installing Dante Server: I accidentally installed an old version of Dante server on Ubuntu 20.04 (through wget - dante-server_1.4.1-1_amd64....
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Firefox not allowing SOCKS proxy

I used to be able to configure a SOCKS proxy in firefox (either v4 or v5), but now the host input element is completely not accepting user input. It is not disabled, but whatever I type is not ...
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