Install Shadowsocks-Rust Server and Client
Debian Server
Update your server’s existing software:
apt update && apt upgrade
Install the snap daemon:
apt install snapd
Exit and re-SSH into your server to add /snap/bin to your PATH.
Install the snap core:
snap install core
Install shadowsocks-rust:
snap install shadowsocks-rust
Generate a 128-bit password expressed in base-64 notation:
openssl rand -base64 16
Create the directory for the ShadowSocks configuration file:
mkdir -p /var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/
Edit the ShadowSocks configuration file:
vi /var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json
Example:
{
"server": "::",
"server_port": 8388,
"method": "2022-blake3-aes-128-gcm",
"password": "wt2VOIKrsTX8RWzPGVFp5Q=="
}
Save the ShadowSocks configuration file.
Open the server port for TCP input in your firewall.
Start the service:
snap start --enable shadowsocks-rust.ssserver-daemon
Check the service status:
systemctl status snap.shadowsocks-rust.ssserver-daemon.service
Ubuntu Client
The snap daemon is already installed on most Ubuntu systems.
Install shadowsocks-rust:
sudo snap install shadowsocks-rust
Create the directory for the ShadowSocks configuration file:
sudo mkdir -p /var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/
Edit the ShadowSocks configuration file:
sudo vi /var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json
Example:
{
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 1080,
"server": "123.123.123.123",
"server_port": 8388,
"method": "2022-blake3-aes-128-gcm",
"password": "wt2VOIKrsTX8RWzPGVFp5Q=="
}
Save the ShadowSocks configuration file.
Either start the local client from the command line, or run as a systemd service.
Run from command line
Start the local client from the command line:
snap run shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon -c /var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json
Leave the terminal window open with shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon running in it.
Run as systemd service
Override the generated systemd service and configure startup options, as explained in the README:
sudo systemctl edit snap.shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon.service
Start the service:
sudo snap start --enable shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon
Check the service status:
sudo systemctl status snap.shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon.service
Use the proxy
Either configure Firefox to use the SOCKS v5 proxy server on 127.0.0.1 port 1080, or configure system-wide networking to use the SOCKS v5 proxy server on 127.0.0.1 port 1080.