How To Install connect-proxy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install connect-proxy
on CentOS 7.
What is connect-proxy
connect-proxy is the simple relaying command to make network connection via SOCKS and https proxy. It is mainly intended to be used as proxy command of OpenSSH. You can make SSH session beyond the firewall with this command. Features of connect-proxy are * Supports SOCKS (version 4/4a/5) and https CONNECT method. * Supports NO-AUTH and USERPASS authentication of SOCKS * Partially supports telnet proxy (experimental). * You can input password from tty, ssh-askpass or environment variable. * Simple and general program independent from OpenSSH. * You can also relay local socket stream instead of standard I/O.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install connect-proxy
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install connect-proxy.
Install connect-proxy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install connect-proxy
using yum
by running the following command:
Install connect-proxy on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install connect-proxy
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall connect-proxy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the connect-proxy
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install connect-proxy
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.