Shadowsocks Client For Mac: The Fastest and Easiest Way to Surf the Web Anonymously

This guide shows you how to create a SOCKS5 proxy server with Shadowsocks on Ubuntu and CentOS. Shadowsocks is a lightweight SOCKS5 web proxy tool primarily utilized to bypass network censorship and block certain websites and web protocols. A full setup requires a Linode server to host the Shadowsocks daemon, and a client installed on PC, Mac, Linux, or a mobile device.

SOCKS5 is an internet protocol of SOCKS that helps to route packets through a proxy between a client and a server. To carry out a secure communication, SOCKS5 uses three different modes of authentication: Null authentication, GSS-API based authentication, and a username-password based authentication.

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Create the Shadowsocks configuration file located at /etc/shadowsocks/shadowsocks.json. Paste the contents listed below into the file, noting the instructions in the shadowsocks.json Breakdown table for each property. Follow these instructions to determine the value you should set for each property.

Extract the contents of the .zip file into any folder and run Shadowsocks.exe. Shadowsocks runs as a background process. Locate the Shadowsocks icon in the taskbar (it may be in the Hidden Icons taskbar menu), right-click on the Shadowsocks icon, then click on Edit Servers. Enter the information that you saved in the shadowsocks.json file:

The kcptun may consume more data, so you can configure more than one shadowsocks ports in the serversome of them is accelerated by kcptun, others are not. The port not using kcptun can be used when you are using data connection, and kcptun port can be used when you are using wifi.

In a previous post, I showed you how to build a shadowsocks server on your own server and install the client software on your Linux, Windows, and Mac Desktop. And also on your Android and iOS devices. This article will show you how to install and use the command line client on Linux including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Archlinux.

Yes, you can use the above commands to install shadowsocks client on ubuntu. But it will install it under /.local/bin/ directory and it causes loads of trouble. So I suggest using su to become root first and then issue the following two commands.

As you can see the command of installing shadowsocks client is the same to the command of installing shadowsocks server, because the above command will install both the client and the server. You can verify this by looking at the installation script output

sslocal is the client software and ssserver is the server software. On some Linux distros such as ubuntu, the shadowsocks client sslocal is installed under /usr/local/bin. On Others such as Arch sslocal is installed under /usr/bin/. Your can use whereis command to find the exact location.

As you can see from the last line, the sslocal command created a process whose pid is 1112 on my machine. It means shadowsocks client is running smoothly. And of course you can tell your browser to connect through your shadowsocks client to see if everything goes well. 2ff7e9595c