(more general ignorance about all things networking)

As a result of a lovely email just received from my ISP about traffic
shaping I'm looking into using Stunnel as a way to encrypt Pan
connections to Usenet and thus change the ports I'm using. I think I've
got the stunnel.conf sorted, but I cant work out how to start stunnel
itself, nor do I understand the references in the documentation to not
running it as either the regular user nor root. Can anyone point me in
the right direction?

central wrote:
(more general ignorance about all things networking)

As a result of a lovely email just received from my ISP about traffic
shaping I'm looking into using Stunnel as a way to encrypt Pan
connections to Usenet and thus change the ports I'm using. I think I've
got the stunnel.conf sorted, but I cant work out how to start stunnel
itself, nor do I understand the references in the documentation to not
running it as either the regular user nor root. Can anyone point me in
the right direction?

http://www.stunnel.org/faq/run.html#ToC1 If that is not clear, explain
waht you tried and what the results where.

houghi

Well, thats helped - I managed to find it in /usr/sbin but cant start it
in daemon mode - get a permission denied error from regular user, and,
having read warnings about running it as root I'm reluctant to try that.
A bit more googling before I come back, I think.