Install Dante Socks Proxy Centos 7
Dante socks5 server (v1.3.2) auto-install and management script About To build a socks5 server, we have lots of open-source programs to reach that, Dante is one of them.
Dante Socks5 Server
Dante is a socks5 server that you can use to setup a socks5 proxy on your ubuntu or debian machine. In this quick tutorial we shall learn how to setup dante and use authentication.
With authentication enabled, the dante proxy server would require all clients to provide login details in order to use the proxy server. This is a good idea.
Installing Dante on Ubuntu
The default Ubuntu repositories have the dante-server package but it is outdated. The version present is 1.1.19 which is quite old and also has some bugs. The authentication feature does not work properly.
If you don't need authentication then you can install it.
The version in repository was
Like said earlier, the authentication feature does not properly work with it. The log file shows the following error messages -
Trying to test with curl shows the following error message -
Some users have reported similar issues at this reddit post -https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3qu9a4/dante_proxy_server_authentication_failing/
Socks Proxy Ip Address
So we need to install a newer version. There is a ppa for dante-server at - https://launchpad.net/~dajhorn/+archive/ubuntu/dante
but it is no longer being maintained. But we can use the deb file from the ppa to install dante on Ubuntu 16.10
The download url is this -
http://ppa.launchpad.net/dajhorn/dante/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dante/dante-server_1.4.1-1_amd64.debInstall using gdebi command
Configure
The next task is to configure the dante server before starting it. The configuration file can be found here -
The contents should look similar to this -
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Now start the danted proxy server
Use the netstat command to check the port number
Create a User
Dante can use the system unix user accounts to authenticate the connecting clients. For this you should create a separate user. Any client that will be connecting to this proxy server will be sending the password in plain text over the network, so beware of that.
Test with curl
Once you have setup everything, its time to test that the proxy server is working as expected. Use the curl command to do this. Specify the username, password, server ip and port number and try fetching some url.
If everything goes fine, you should see the html of google.com in the terminal. Now you can use the proxy inside of browsers.
Resources
Socks Proxy Free Download
Config documentation can be found here -
https://www.inet.no/dante/doc/1.4.x/config/server.html
If you want to compile the latest version of dante from source then check out these links -
http://www.nat.li/linux/how-to-install-dante-on-linux
http://tazdij.com/post/setup-dante-1.4.1-sockd-dante-server-on-ubuntu-16.04