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As far as the IRC stuff goes, many servers now do a SOCKS check on your
system to see if you're an open socks relay. Requiring password
authentication may just be an anal server, or a config problem on your
end.
Sean
> > I had it working fine with a config similar to Fuzzy's, but then I had
> > to add password authentication for security reasons (some IRC network
> > wouldn't let me in if I didn't).
>
> This is confusing to me. A SOCKS server uses password authentication in
> order to figure out whether a particular user behind the firewall is
> *allowed* to use the SOCKS server at all. The username gets logged in
> the logs, but it does NOT get sent to anyone outside the network!
>
> IRC normally uses "ident" protocol to determine the "real user" that is
> attached to a socket connection. Since the SOCKS server runs as root
> (though it doesn't have to), the owner of any connection via SOCKS will
> appear to be "root", to the external network, unless SOCKS does some
> amazing things with setuid changes that I don't know about...
>
> I'm still amazed that this makes IRC work.
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