Proxychains-Ng Issues on Mac

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ProxyChains-ng does not work on macOS due to System Integration Protection (SIP). There are basically 3 ways to fix/avoid it.

The issue only happens if you execute a system binary using proxychains, e.g. proxychains4 ssh user@server. For now, a workaround is to copy the executable to another location (e.g. cp /usr/bin/ssh ~/.local/bin/), and use it (e.g. proxychains4 ~/.local/bin/ssh user@server). You can modify the path variable so that ~/.local/bin/ssh is executed instead of /usr/bin/ssh, when you just type ssh.
Disable SIP (which is not recommended generally speaking). Please refer to How to turn off System Integrity Protection on your Mac for instructions.
Use ProxyChains/ProxyChains-ng in a Linux Docker container on Mac. For example, dclong/jupyterhub-ds is a Ubuntu-based Docker image with ProxyChains4 (i.e., ProxyChains-ng) installed.

For more discussions, please refer to Not working on OS X 10.11 due to SIP .

References

https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/issues/78