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Bailando

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 133

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How to set up a tunneling proxy on my VPS?

Hi!

I would like to set up a tunneling proxy on my VPS to browse some web pages through it. I tried to use Tor network, and "torify", but some web pages detect it, and disable my registration. Then I googled and found out that "ssh" can be used as a tunneling (SOCKS) proxy. It worked, but there is no support for password authentication. I kept on googling, and found package "dante" which supports username / password authentication, however the documentation warnings about that the password is sent as a plain text. This doesn't sound too good. Is there any other way to set up a simple tunneling proxy server which supports username / password authentication?

robin67

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 45

Re: How to set up a tunneling proxy on my VPS?

How do you mean there is no "password authentication" while using ssh as a socks proxy ?
You need to log on to your VPS with a password using ssh first. Don't you consider that as password authentication ?
I also use ssh as a socks proxy, because that way no extra software is needed and it works perfectly.

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: How to set up a tunneling proxy on my VPS?

ssh uses password authentication by default, I'm not sure that I understand the issue here