It’s not so obvious that socks servers with authentication are a necessary thing.
- You can run a “local socks service” simply by connecting to a remote host via ssh (with
-D <port>) - Most of software products, that support socks, don’t support socks servers with authentication
The last fact I find very unfortunate, because using socks without having to monitor ssh connection is much more comfortable. But if the software actually supports socks with authentication you can try Dante server.
Here’s how to install and configure it in CentOS 7.
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