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configure a SOCKS proxy server

Inspired by my wife's difficulty connecting to the internet due to new security policies at her organization, I decided to try a proxy to allow her to use Windows Live Messenger. The Linux SOCKS proxy server implementation these days is made under the name DANTE edit the config file (/etc/socks/sockd.conf).  It is in this file logging is enabled via the syslog mechanism and internal and external addresses are bound. Whereas the internal bindings include a port specification, the external one does not.   The comments are well formed I'd also spend a little time looking them over. The details: logoutput: syslog internal: eth1 port = 1080 internal: 127.0.0.1 port = 1080 external: 1.2.3.4 # or external: eth0 To achieve full access (no username/password). method: username none # Not using authentication, so unnecessary #user.privileged: proxy user.notprivileged: nobody   The access controls for sockd daemon are last. They are checked against in the order the