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proxychains-ng

proxychains

A preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies.

Runs as proxychains, proxychains4|macOS, Linux|github.com

Open form in Otty otty.toml

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proxychains-ng in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

socks5http

Lifted into your secret store; the rest of the file syncs.

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/proxychains/otty.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "proxychains"

name = "proxychains-ng"

homepage = "https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng"

# The project's own repository description, trimmed.

description = "A preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies."

executables = ["proxychains", "proxychains4"]

# It works by preloading a shared library into the target process — LD_PRELOAD

# on Linux and DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES on macOS — so there is no Windows build.

platforms = ["macos", "linux"]

[dotfiles]

# The project's own README gives the search order for the config file:

# 1. "file listed in environment variable PROXYCHAINS_CONF_FILE or provided

# as a -f argument"

# 2. ./proxychains.conf

# 3. $(HOME)/.proxychains/proxychains.conf

# 4. $(sysconfdir)/proxychains.conf

# Only the third is the user's own copy; the second is per-project and the

# fourth is the system default outside the home directory.

paths = ["~/.proxychains/proxychains.conf"]

exclude = []

# The file is not a credential end to end — the chain mode, `proxy_dns`, the

# timeouts and the `localnet` exclusions are ordinary settings — so only the

# proxy lines are lifted out, below.

secret = []

# Read once when the preloaded library initialises in each launched process,

# so rewriting it between runs is harmless.

side_effect = false

# The shipped src/proxychains.conf documents the ProxyList entry format as

# type ip port [user pass]

# ...

# proxy types: http, socks4, socks5, raw

# ( auth types supported: "basic"-http "user/pass"-socks )

# with `socks5 192.168.67.78 1080 lamer secret` among its own examples, so a

# proxy line can end in a username and a password in the clear. Those two

# keywords are exactly the types the same note says carry authentication;

# `socks4`'s fifth field is a userid rather than a password and `raw` takes

# none, so their lines stay ordinary content. A socks5 or http line without

# credentials is lifted out too — over-classifying costs a little convenience,

# and there is no way to match "only the tail of the line".

[[dotfiles.secret_paths]]

file = "~/.proxychains/proxychains.conf"

match = { prefix = ["socks5", "http"] }

[commands]

format = 1

label = "Run through proxies"

description = "Run a program with its TCP connections forced through the configured proxy chain. Uses proxychains4; chain mode and proxy list live in the config file."

quality = "ai-draft"

parser = { end_of_options = "--", interleave = "permute", long_equals = false, short_attached = false, short_bundles = false }

[[commands.source]]

id = "man"

kind = "manual"

url = "https://manpages.debian.org/testing/proxychains4/proxychains4.1.en.html"

revision = "2026-10-27"

evidence = """

proxychains4 --help

proxychains4 [ -f configfile.conf ] <program>

"""

[[commands.field]]

id = "config"

label = "Config file"

description = "Defaults to the search order documented by proxychains-ng when empty."

type = "path"

path = { kind = "file", role = "input" }

option = ["-f"]

sources = ["man"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "program"

label = "Program"

type = "string"

position = 0

min = 1

sources = ["man"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "args"

label = "Program arguments"

type = "string"

position = 1

multiple = true

sources = ["man"]

[[commands.task]]

id = "run"

label = "Run a program via proxies"

fields = ["program", "args"]

required = ["program"]

[[commands.task]]

id = "run_conf"

label = "Run with a specific config"

fields = ["config", "program", "args"]

required = ["config", "program"]

[[commands.group]]

id = "basic"

label = "Basic"

fields = ["config", "program", "args"]

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/proxychains. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

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