I want to set up a personal Tor SOCKS5 proxy on my Linux VPS to use it on mobile devices and whatnot. Apparently, Tor can only protect its control port, SOCKS5 stays open. How do I set a lightweight, password-protected Tor SOCKS5 proxy? Seems like I need to set up another proxy, which would tunnel traffic through Tor. Where do I start?
Here's the Tor manual.
You can set:
Socks5ProxyUsername username Socks5ProxyPassword password
When you start the Tor service.
If you are asking how to create a proxy server in general apart from Tor, then you should probably ask that in the Unix/Linux Stackexchange depending on your Linux distribution.
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Tor daemon can make open relay connections through another socks proxy, and Socks5ProxyUsername Socks5ProxyPassword set credentials for that proxy. So no, it's not it. – Roffen Nov 15 '19 at 21:49
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