Really simple SSH proxy (SOCKS5) | Thomas Hunter II
SOCKS5 is a simple, eloquent method for getting yourself a proxified connection to the internet. All you need to get a proxy connection working is to run an SSH server somewhere, run a single command locally, and configure your software (or OS) to use this proxy. Why would you want to run a proxy? Well, all traffic sent between your client machine (e.g. a wireless laptop at a coffee shop), and the remote machine (e.g. your home server located on your trusted network) will be encrypted. Also, your external IP address will be that of the SSH server, which can be useful for various other reasons.
For this tutorial I will show screenshots for setting up an OS level proxy in OS X. Linux should have some similar GUI tools involved, or you can always configure it on the command line. I'm not sure if Windows has similar tools. I'm assuming you are familiar with networking basics and have a linux server setup with internet connectivity.
The first thing you will need to do is install an SSH daemon on your Linux server. Depending on your OS, it is usually as simple as running the following command (most distro's allow all normal users SSH access by default, save for the root user).
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