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I was looking at this question while I was trying to find a good socks server for linux that would be easy to configure.

The following command works fine:

ssh -f -N -D 0.0.0.0:1080 localhost

I was wondering, though, if it is possible to have some kind of authentication required for the socks proxy to work - i.e. an existing unix user & correct password?

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I don't think it is possible with OpenSSH. You will need to use a Socks5 proxy server like Dante.

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  • I was left under the same impression. A follow up question - do you by any chance have a sample configuration of the dante authentication? I saw https://www.inet.no/dante/doc/1.4.x/config/auth_username.html but I can't figure out how to create users and where does Dante read them from? – tftd Apr 24 '14 at 20:55