SOCKS5 Installation & Configuration

Due to high demand in proxy and VPNs, I wanted to create my own SOCKS5 Proxy, but the lack of material online and the amount of problems I encountered during the whole procedure made me write these instructions. Good luck and enjoy the freedom!
We will be using dante-server 1.4.1

My server

• OS: Debian 9
• Host: DigitalOcean

Installation

We will be installing danted-server from the source

• Download the installation file with wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/dajhorn/dante/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dante/dante-server_1.4.1-1_amd64.deb
• Install gdebi with apt-get install gdebi-core
• sudo gdebi dante-server_1.4.1-1.amd64.deb to install dante-server with gdebi

Configuration

• nano /etc/danted.conf

Your configuration should look like this:

# /etc/danted.conf

logoutput: syslog
user.privileged: root
user.unprivileged: nobody

# The listening network interface or address.
internal: eth0 port=1080

# The proxying network interface or address.
external: eth0

# socks-rules determine what is proxied through the external interface.
# The default of "none" permits anonymous access.
socksmethod: username

# client-rules determine who can connect to the internal interface.
# The default of "none" permits anonymous access.
clientmethod: none

client pass {
    from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
    log: connect disconnect error
    socksmethod: username
}

socks pass {
    from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
    command: bind connect udpassociate
    log: error # connect disconnect iooperation
    socksmethod: username
}

socks pass{
    from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
    command: bindreply udpreply
    log: error # connect disconnect iooperation
}

The only values you might want to change are internal, external and the port, where:

• internal & external must be changed to whatever interface your server is using. You can find it by calling ifconfig.
• port is your desired port to use. 1080 is a default socks5 port, but I wouldn't recommend using it, as various people might be interested in scanning those.

Open the Port

• We will have to open the port in the iptables list in order to allow connections. Simply type:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1080 --jump ACCEPT

Where 1080 should be your port number.

Add user

• adduser --disabled-login --no-create-home <name>

Where <name> stands for username

• passwd <name> to set a password for the user

Launch

• service danted stop
• service danted start

@ev3me 2018