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secure Danted setup, but without authentication

Razlog za ovako nešto je to što Chrome ne podržava SOCKS5 authentication, pa sam morao da smislim neki bolji način.

Ukratko, prvo poseti “https://orotec … /_socks.php” a zatim će SOCKS5 proxy da radi.

Determine main interface name in Ubuntu

There are two one-liners, both equally efficient and elegant. They are based on the principle of discarding all virtual network interfaces and then taking the first remaining one. Both one-liners will assign the interface name to the variable iname.

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# more robust method that checks for the actual existence of the interface
iname=$(ls /sys/class/net | while read -r iface; do if [[ -d /sys/class/net/$iface/device ]]; then echo $iface; break; fi; done)

# more elegant as it discards virtual interfaces based on whether the phrase `virtual` appears in the symlink
iname=$(find /sys/class/net -type l -not -lname '*virtual*' -printf '%f\n' | head -n 1)

Install danted

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# install dante
apt update && apt install -y dante-server

# assign variables
iname=$(find /sys/class/net -type l -not -lname '*virtual*' -printf '%f\n' | head -n 1)
port="22333"  # SOCKS5 port number

# backup the original conf file
sudo mv /etc/danted.conf /etc/danted.conf.backup

# ensure that file exists
sudo touch /etc/danted.whitelist

# create /etc/danted.conf as elevated user
cat << EOF | sudo tee "/etc/danted.conf" > /dev/null
logoutput: stderr
internal: $iname port = $port
external: $iname
socksmethod: none
clientmethod: none
user.privileged: proxy
user.notprivileged: nobody
user.libwrap: nobody

socks pass {
    from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
    log: connect disconnect error
}

# client pass rules are below this line

EOF

# and use it also as a template
sudo cp /etc/danted.conf /etc/danted.conf.template

# create a script that will combine ip's into dante rules
cat << 'EOF' | sudo tee "/etc/danted.combine.sh" > /dev/null
#!/bin/bash

# start with a template
cp "/etc/danted.conf.template" "/etc/danted.conf"

# and apend whitelisted ips
while IFS= read -r IP; do

cat << MARKER >> "/etc/danted.conf"
client pass {
    from: $IP/32 to: 0.0.0.0/0
    log: connect disconnect error
}
MARKER
done < "/etc/danted.whitelist"

# restart service
sudo systemctl restart danted
EOF

# make it executable
chmod +x /etc/danted.combine.sh

# restart to apply the changes
sudo systemctl restart danted


# firewall must have port opened
# for example: sudo ufw allow $port

# verify that Dante is running and listening on the correct port:
sudo systemctl status danted
sudo netstat -tuln | grep $port

Now, I’ll monitor file changes and regenerate config and restart dante on change. I’m implementing it this way as I don’t want web server user to have sudo access for the systemctl command. Tako da otpada da moj PHP skript sam restartuje danted proces i zato radim ovaj file monitoring. Odlučio sam ovo da uradim koristeći systemd a ne inotify.

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# systemd.service Unit File

sudo tee "/etc/systemd/system/danted-reconfigure.service" > /dev/null << 'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Reload danted when whitelist changes

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/etc/danted.combine.sh
EOF

# systemd.path Unit File

sudo tee "/etc/systemd/system/danted-reconfigure.path" > /dev/null << 'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Monitor /etc/danted.whitelist for changes

[Path]
PathModified=/etc/danted.whitelist

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

# Reload the configuration
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

# Enable and start our service
sudo systemctl enable --now danted-reconfigure.path

Now everything is working perfectly. Specifically, every time there is a change in the /etc/danted.whitelist file, the entire danted system is reconfigured. I just need a simple way to add my IP address to the whitelist, and I will do this using PHP.

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cat << 'EOF' | sudo tee "/home/orotec/htdocs/orotec.jao.rs/_socks.php" > /dev/null
<?php

# username is the most left part of domain
$expectedUsername = strtok($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], '.');

# password is filename
$expectedPassword = pathinfo(basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), PATHINFO_FILENAME);

# If not authenticated, send a 401 Unauthorized header and exit
$isAuthenticated = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] === $expectedUsername && $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] === $expectedPassword;
if (!$isAuthenticated) {
    header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Restricted Area"');
    header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
    exit('Authorization Required.');
}

# Get the client IP address from the server superglobal
$clientIP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

# If "clear" query parameter is present, clear the file, otherwise append the IP
file_put_contents('/etc/danted.whitelist', $clientIP . PHP_EOL, isset($_GET['clear']) ? 0 : FILE_APPEND);

# Output just the client IP
echo $clientIP . "\n";

EOF

just change owner user

sudo chown orotec /etc/danted.whitelist

so add an IP by visiting

https://orotec.jao.rs/_socks.php

date 02. Oct 2023 | modified 29. Dec 2023
filename: Scraping » Proxying » Perfect Danted