In this tutorial, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of installing socks5-proxy-server on Fedora CoreOS Latest. socks5-proxy-server is a server that allows you to proxy traffic through an SSH tunnel.
Before we begin, you will need the following:
Once you have the prerequisites covered, you can follow the steps below to install socks5-proxy-server.
The first step in the process is to install Git, which is required to download the socks5-proxy-server source code from GitHub. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo dnf install git -y
Next, clone the socks5-proxy-server repository from GitHub by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/nskondratev/socks5-proxy-server.git
Before we can start using socks5-proxy-server, we need to install its dependencies. To do this, run the following command:
sudo dnf install -y make gcc
Now we are ready to build socks5-proxy-server. To do this, navigate to the socks5-proxy-server directory that we downloaded earlier:
cd socks5-proxy-server
Then, use the make command to build the software:
sudo make
Once you have built socks5-proxy-server, you need to configure it to suit your needs. To do this, create a configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/socks5.cfg
In this file, you can specify the port that socks5-proxy-server will listen on, as well as other options such as the user or password to use.
Here’s an example configuration:
port=1080
user=username
password=password
Remember to replace username and password with your own credentials.
Now we can start socks5-proxy-server by running the following command:
sudo ./socks5-proxy-server /etc/socks5.cfg
By default, socks5-proxy-server will listen on port 1080.
To test that socks5-proxy-server is working correctly, open a new terminal window and use the curl command to make an HTTP request through the proxy:
curl --proxy socks5h://localhost:1080 https://example.com
If everything is set up correctly, the request should succeed and return the contents of the example.com website.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured socks5-proxy-server on Fedora CoreOS Latest. Now you can use the software to securely proxy traffic through an SSH tunnel.
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