r/CentOS

So, I have a friend that needs to access his company while he is on an extended vacation outside the country and he doesn't want anyone to know he's doing this. I would like to use my Internet connection to provide a proxy service (don't need to worry about encrypted VPN traffic) so that his traffic appears to be coming from my Internet connection. He'll connect into a device on my network which will forward the traffic. I'm looking for a solution to the piece that provides the proxy service. This needs to be ALL traffic and not just web traffic. I'm pretty Linux literate so I can rig something up there and also need to know what software to run on his Windows laptop to connect to the linux box. Not looking for details on how to implement, just what the best packages are best to use at this point. Thanks a bunch!

I'm thinking of using CentOS Stream 10 as my daily driver, workstation, and also for gaming. What do you guys think?

Since most programs are now available on Flatpak (including Steam), I don't think it will be a problem.

I'm trying to install CentOS Stream 10 so I can see if an issue I have with 389-ds-base is already fixed upstream.

I'm looking for the image that's the equivalent of the RHEL image I'm using: rhel-10.1-x86_64-kvm.qcow2. So I found but noticed a couple of strange things:

• The image doesn't have an ESP for UEFI booting. The files are present in /boot/efi but they're part of the root filesystem

• centos-stream-repos is not installed so there are no repos defined. Running dnf download --url centos-stream-repos centos-gpg-keys from a centos stream 10 container and installing the RPMs from the printed URLs resolved this

• /etc/os-release and /etc/redhat-release identify the OS as RHEL 10.1

• dnf repoinfo baseos shows Repo-distro-tags : [cpe:/o:centos-stream:centos-stream:10]: , , 0, 1, C, O, S, S, a, e, e, m, n, r, t, t which looks like the parsing of a string got messed up somewhere

• dnf upgrade fails with file /usr/lib64/ossl-modules/fips.so from install of openssl-fips-provider-1:3.5.5-2.el10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package openssl-fips-provider-so-3.0.7-8.el10.x86_64 - fixed by dnf swap openssl-fips-provider-so openssl-fips-provider

Anyway - I dunno if these are known issues or whether it's just a problem with this particular image... hopefully the hints above will help someone else out who runs into the same problems.