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Re: ITP: tsocks -- transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy



On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:19:42PM +0200, Tamas SZERB wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Oliver M . Bolzer wrote:
> 
> > $ tsocks ssh foo.org
> > 
> > then
> > 
> > $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtsocks.so.X ssh foo.org
> 
> agree. do you think is that enough?
> 
> alabama:~$ cat tsocks
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> export LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libtsocks.so"
> 
> exec $*
> #EOF
> 
> I think that is necessary, and not really more. But you are using for long
> time this thing. Is it ok, or do we need more?

I have never used this myself, but if someone wanted more, they could always
do something like 'tsocks bash' and get a shell in which every program they
ran would be filtered through tsocks. They could even put something like 'exec
tsocks bash' at the end of their ~/.bash_profile and then they'd always have
it. (Of course this could be adapted for tcsh and xdm users.) Or am I wrong?
This has not been tested.

On second thought, for those who want it all the time, they could just put the
LD_PRELOAD export command in their startup scripts and have an easier time. But
my point is that no, no more is needed than this script IMHO.

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@debian.org

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