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This is a port of [shadowsocks](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks).
shadowsocks is a fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.
| [**shadowsocks**](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks) | [](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks) [](https://docs.rs/shadowsocks) shadowsocks core protocol |
| [**shadowsocks-service**](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks-service) | [](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks-service) [](https://docs.rs/shadowsocks-service) Services for serving shadowsocks |
| [**shadowsocks-rust**](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks-rust) | [](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks-rust) Binaries running common shadowsocks services |
Related Projects:
- [spyophobia/shadowsocks-gtk-rs](https://github.com/spyophobia/shadowsocks-gtk-rs) A GUI on Linux for `sslocal` using GTK, [discussion](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/issues/664)
- [honwen/openwrt-shadowsocks-rust](https://github.com/honwen/openwrt-shadowsocks-rust) OpenWRT solution for `sslocal`, [discussion](https://github.com/honwen/openwrt-shadowsocks-rust)
- [cg31/shadowsocks-windows-gui-rust](https://github.com/cg31/shadowsocks-windows-gui-rust) Windows GUI client, [discussion](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/issues/375)
## Build & Install
### Optional Features
- `hickory-dns` - Uses [`hickory-resolver`](https://crates.io/crates/hickory-resolver) as DNS resolver instead of `tokio`'s builtin.
- `local-http` - Allow using HTTP protocol for `sslocal`
- `local-http-native-tls` - Support HTTPS with [`native-tls`](https://crates.io/crates/native-tls)
- `local-http-rustls` - Support HTTPS with [`rustls`](https://crates.io/crates/rustls)
- `local-tunnel` - Allow using tunnel protocol for `sslocal`
- `local-socks4` - Allow using SOCKS4/4a protocol for `sslocal`
- `local-redir` - Allow using redir (transparent proxy) protocol for `sslocal`
- `local-dns` - Allow using dns protocol for `sslocal`, serves as a DNS server proxying queries to local or remote DNS servers by ACL rules
- `local-fake-dns` - FakeDNS, allocating an IP address for each individual Query from a specific IP pool
- `local-tun` - [TUN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP) interface support for `sslocal`
- `local-online-config` - [SIP008](https://shadowsocks.org/doc/sip008.html) Online Configuration Delivery
- `stream-cipher` - Enable deprecated stream ciphers. WARN: stream ciphers are UNSAFE!
- `aead-cipher-extra` - Enable non-standard AEAD ciphers
- `aead-cipher-2022` - Enable AEAD-2022 ciphers ([SIP022](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/196))
- `aead-cipher-2022-extra` - Enable AEAD-2022 extra ciphers (non-standard ciphers)
#### Memory Allocators
This project uses system (libc) memory allocator (Rust's default). But it also allows you to use other famous allocators by features:
- `jemalloc` - Uses [jemalloc](http://jemalloc.net/) as global memory allocator
- `mimalloc` - Uses [mi-malloc](https://microsoft.github.io/mimalloc/) as global memory allocator
- `tcmalloc` - Uses [TCMalloc](https://google.github.io/tcmalloc/overview.html) as global memory allocator. It tries to link system-wide tcmalloc by default, use vendored from source with `tcmalloc-vendored`.
- `snmalloc` - Uses [snmalloc](https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc) as global memory allocator
- `rpmalloc` - Uses [rpmalloc](https://github.com/mjansson/rpmalloc) as global memory allocator
### **crates.io**
Install from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/shadowsocks-rust):
```bash
# Install from crates.io
cargo install shadowsocks-rust
```
then you can find `sslocal` and `ssserver` in `$CARGO_HOME/bin`.
### **Install using Homebrew**
For macOS and Linux, you can install it using [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/):
```bash
brew install shadowsocks-rust
```
### **Install using snap**
```bash
# Install from snapstore
snap install shadowsocks-rust
# List services
snap services shadowsocks-rust
# Enable and start shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon snap service
snap start --enable shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon
# Show generated systemd service status
systemctl status snap.shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon.service
# Override generated systemd service (configure startup options)
systemctl edit snap.shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon.service
## NOTE: you can pass args to sslocal:
## [Service]
## ExecStart=
## ExecStart=/usr/bin/snap run shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon -b "127.0.0.1:1080" --server-url "ss://...."
# Restart generated systemd service to apply changes
systemctl restart snap.shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon.service
# ... and show service status
systemctl status snap.shadowsocks-rust.sslocal-daemon.service
```
Default configuration file path probably is `/var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json`.
### **Download release**
Download static-linked build [here](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/releases).
- Most of them are built with [cross](https://github.com/cross-rs/cross). Build environment details could be found in its README, such as glibc's version.
- `x86_64-apple-darwin`, `aarch64-apple-darwin` are built in github's `macos-latest` image. Information could be found in [here](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners).
- `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` is built in github's `windows-latest` image. Information could be found in [here](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners).
### **Docker**
This project provided Docker images for the `linux/i386` and `linux/amd64` and `linux/arm64/v8` architectures.
> :warning: **Docker containers do not have access to IPv6 by default**: Make sure to disable IPv6 Route in the client or [enable IPv6 access to docker containers](https://docs.docker.com/config/daemon/ipv6/#use-ipv6-for-the-default-bridge-network).
#### Pull from GitHub Container Registry
Docker will pull the image of the appropriate architecture from our [GitHub Packages](https://github.com/orgs/shadowsocks/packages?repo_name=shadowsocks-rust).
```bash
docker pull ghcr.io/shadowsocks/sslocal-rust:latest
docker pull ghcr.io/shadowsocks/ssserver-rust:latest
```
#### Build on the local machine（Optional）
If you want to build the Docker image yourself, you need to use the [BuildX](https://docs.docker.com/buildx/working-with-buildx/).
```bash
docker buildx build -t shadowsocks/ssserver-rust:latest -t shadowsocks/ssserver-rust:v1.15.2 --target ssserver .
docker buildx build -t shadowsocks/sslocal-rust:latest -t shadowsocks/sslocal-rust:v1.15.2 --target sslocal .
```
#### Run the container
You need to mount the configuration file into the container and create an external port map for the container to connect to it.
```bash
docker run --name sslocal-rust \
--restart always \
-p 1080:1080/tcp \
-v /path/to/config.json:/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json \
-dit ghcr.io/shadowsocks/sslocal-rust:latest
docker run --name ssserver-rust \
--restart always \
-p 8388:8388/tcp \
-p 8388:8388/udp \
-v /path/to/config.json:/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json \
-dit ghcr.io/shadowsocks/ssserver-rust:latest
```
### **Deploy to Kubernetes**
This project provided yaml manifests for deploying to Kubernetes.
You can leverage k8s Service to expose traffic outside, like LoadBalancer or NodePort which gains more fine-grained compared with fixed host or port.
For a more interesting use case, you can use a Ingress(Istio, nginx, etc.) which routes the matched traffic to shadowsocks along with the real web service.
#### Using `kubectl`
`kubectl apply -f https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/raw/master/k8s/shadowsocks-rust.yaml`
You can change the config via editing the ConfigMap named `shadowsocks-rust`.
For more fine-grained control, use `helm`.
#### Using `helm`
`helm install my-release k8s/chart -f my-values.yaml`
Below is the common default values you can change:
```yaml
# This is the shadowsocks config which will be mount to /etc/shadowocks-rust.
# You can put arbitrary yaml here, and it will be translated to json before mounting.
servers:
- server: "::"
server_port: 8388
service_port: 80 # the k8s service port, default to server_port
password: mypassword
method: aes-256-gcm
fast_open: true
mode: tcp_and_udp
# plugin: v2ray-plugin
# plugin_opts: server;tls;host=github.com
# Whether to download v2ray and xray plugin.
downloadPlugins: false
# Name of the ConfigMap with config.json configuration for shadowsocks-rust.
configMapName: ""
service:
# Change to LoadBalancer if you are behind a cloud provider like aws, gce, or tke.
type: ClusterIP
# Bind shadowsocks port port to host, i.e., we can use host:port to access shawdowsocks server.
hostPort: false
replicaCount: 1
image:
repository: ghcr.io/shadowsocks/ssserver-rust
pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
# Overrides the image tag whose default is the chart appVersion.
tag: "latest"
```
### **Build from source**
Use cargo to build. NOTE: **RAM >= 2GiB**
```bash
cargo build --release
```
Then `sslocal` and `ssserver` will appear in `./target/(debug|release)/`, it works similarly as the two binaries in the official ShadowSocks' implementation.
```bash
make install TARGET=release
```
Then `sslocal`, `ssserver`, `ssmanager` and `ssurl` will be installed to `/usr/local/bin` (variable PREFIX).
For Windows users, if you have encountered any problem in building, check and discuss in [#102](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/issues/102).
### **target-cpu optimization**
If you are building for your current CPU platform (for example, build and run on your personal computer), it is recommended to set `target-cpu=native` feature to let `rustc` generate and optimize code for the CPU running the compiler.
```bash
export RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
```
### **Build standalone binaries**
Requirements:
- Docker
```bash
./build/build-release
```
Then `sslocal`, `ssserver`, `ssmanager`, `ssservice` and `ssurl` will be packaged in
- `./build/shadowsocks-${VERSION}-stable.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz`
- `./build/shadowsocks-${VERSION}-stable.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip`
Read `Cargo.toml` for more details.
For Linux with low GLIBC versions, set `CROSS_CONFIG` to CentOS based image:
```bash
export CROSS_CONFIG=Cross-centos.toml
```
## Getting Started
Generate a safe and secured password for a specific encryption method (`aes-128-gcm` in the example) with:
```bash
ssservice genkey -m "aes-128-gcm"
```
Create a ShadowSocks' configuration file. Example
```jsonc
{
"server": "my_server_ip",
"server_port": 8388,
"password": "rwQc8qPXVsRpGx3uW+Y3Lj4Y42yF9Bs0xg1pmx8/+bo=",
"method": "aes-256-gcm",
// ONLY FOR `sslocal`
// Delete these lines if you are running `ssserver` or `ssmanager`
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 1080
}
```
Detailed explanation of the configuration file could be found in [shadowsocks' documentation](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/wiki). (Link to original project, not maintained anymore !)
> :warning: For snap installations, configuration file is most probably located in `/var/snap/shadowsocks-rust/common/etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json` (see <https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/issues/621> / <https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/issues/1146>)
In shadowsocks-rust, we also have an extended configuration file format, which is able to define more than one server. You can also disable individual servers.
```jsonc
{
"servers": [
{
"server": "127.0.0.1",
"server_port": 8388,
"password": "rwQc8qPXVsRpGx3uW+Y3Lj4Y42yF9Bs0xg1pmx8/+bo=",
"method": "aes-256-gcm",
"timeout": 7200
},
{
"server": "127.0.0.1",
"server_port": 8389,
"password": "/dliNXn5V4jg6vBW4MnC1I8Jljg9x7vSihmk6UZpRBM=",
"method": "chacha20-ietf-poly1305"
},
{
"disabled": true,
"server": "eg.disable.me",
"server_port": 8390,
"password": "mGvbWWay8ueP9IHnV5F1uWGN2BRToiVCAWJmWOTLU24=",
"method": "chacha20-ietf-poly1305"
}
],
// ONLY FOR `sslocal`
// Delete these lines if you are running `ssserver` or `ssmanager`
"local_port": 1080,
"local_address": "127.0.0.1"
}
```
`sslocal` automatically selects the best server with the lowest latency and the highest availability.
Start Shadowsocks client and server with:
```bash
sslocal -c config.json
ssserver -c config.json
```
If you Build it with Cargo:
```bash
cargo run --bin sslocal -- -c config.json
cargo run --bin ssserver -- -c config.json
```
List all available arguments with `-h`.
## Usage
Start local client with configuration file
```bash
# Read local client configuration from file
sslocal -c /path/to/shadowsocks.json
```
### Socks5 Local client
```bash
# Pass all parameters via command line
sslocal -b "127.0.0.1:1080" -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty" --plugin "v2ray-plugin" --plugin-opts "server;tls;host=github.com"
# Pass server with SIP002 URL
sslocal -b "127.0.0.1:1080" --server-url "ss://YWVzLTI1Ni1nY206cGFzc3dvcmQ@127.0.0.1:8388/?plugin=v2ray-plugin%3Bserver%3Btls%3Bhost%3Dgithub.com"
```
### HTTP Local client
```bash
sslocal -b "127.0.0.1:3128" --protocol http -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty"
```
All parameters are the same as Socks5 client, except `--protocol http`.
### Tunnel Local client
```bash
# Set 127.0.0.1:8080 as the target for forwarding to
sslocal --protocol tunnel -b "127.0.0.1:3128" -f "127.0.0.1:8080" -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty"
```
- `--protocol tunnel` enables local client Tunnel mode
- `-f "127.0.0.1:8080` sets the tunnel target address
### Transparent Proxy Local client
**NOTE**: It currently only supports
- Linux (with `iptables` targets `REDIRECT` and `TPROXY`)
- BSDs (with `pf`), such as OS X 10.10+, FreeBSD, ...
```bash
sslocal -b "127.0.0.1:60080" --protocol redir -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty" --tcp-redir "redirect" --udp-redir "tproxy"
```
Redirects connections with `iptables` configurations to the port that `sslocal` is listening on.
- `--protocol redir` enables local client Redir mode
- (optional) `--tcp-redir` sets TCP mode to `REDIRECT` (Linux)
- (optional) `--udp-redir` sets UDP mode to `TPROXY` (Linux)
### Tun interface client
**NOTE**: It currently only supports
- Linux, Android
- macOS, iOS
- Windows
#### Linux
Create a Tun interface with name `tun0`
```bash
ip tuntap add mode tun tun0
ifconfig tun0 inet 10.255.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
```
Start `sslocal` with `--protocol tun` and binds to `tun0`
```bash
sslocal --protocol tun -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty" --outbound-bind-interface lo0 --tun-interface-name tun0
```
#### macOS
```bash
sslocal --protocol tun -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty" --outbound-bind-interface lo0 --tun-interface-address 10.255.0.1/24
```
It will create a Tun interface with address `10.255.0.1` and netmask `255.255.255.0`.
#### Windows
Download `wintun.dll` from [Wintun](https://www.wintun.net/), and place it in the folder with shadowsocks' runnable binaries, or in the system PATH.
```powershell
sslocal --protocol tun -s "[::1]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty" --outbound-bind-interface "Ethernet 0" --tun-interface-name "shadowsocks"
```
### Local client for Windows Service
Compile it by enabling `--features "winservice"` (not included in the default build):
```bash
cargo build --release --bin "sswinservice" --features "winservice"
```
Install it as a Windows Service (PowerShell):
```powershell
New-Service -Name "shadowsocks-local-service" `
-DisplayName "Shadowsocks Local Service" `
-BinaryPathName "<Path\to>\sswinservice.exe local -c <Path\to>\local_config.json"
```
There are other ways to install `sswinservice` as a Windows Service, for example, the `sc` command.
As you may have noticed that the `-BinaryPathName` contains not only just the `sswinservice.exe`, but `local -c local_config.json`. These command line parameters will be used as the default parameter when the Windows Service starts. You can also start the service with customized parameters.
Learn more from [Microsoft's Document](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/windows-services/introduction-to-windows-service-applications).
The `sswinservice`'s parameter works exactly the same as `ssservice`. It supports `local`, `server` and `manager` subcommands.
### Server
```bash
# Read server configuration from file
ssserver -c /path/to/shadowsocks.json
# Pass all parameters via command line
ssserver -s "[::]:8388" -m "aes-256-gcm" -k "hello-kitty" --plugin "v2ray-plugin" --plugin-opts "server;tls;host=github.com"
```
### Server Manager
Supported [Manage Multiple Users](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/wiki/Manage-Multiple-Users) API:
- `add` - Starts a server instance
- `remove` - Deletes an existing server instance
- `list` - Lists all current running servers
- `ping` - Lists all servers' statistic data
NOTE: `stat` command is not supported. Because servers are running in the same process with the manager itself.
```bash
# Start it just with --manager-address command line parameter
ssmanager --manager-address "127.0.0.1:6100"
# For *nix system, manager can bind to unix socket address
ssmanager --manager-address "/tmp/shadowsocks-manager.sock"
# You can also provide a configuration file
#
# `manager_address` key must be provided in the configuration file
ssmanager -c /path/to/shadowsocks.json
# Create one server by UDP
echo 'add: {"server_port":8388,"password":"hello-kitty"}' | nc -u '127.0.0.1' '6100'
# Close one server by unix socket
echo 'remove: {"server_port":8388}' | nc -Uu '/tmp/shadowsocks-manager.sock'
```
For manager UI, check more details in the [shadowsocks-manager](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-manager) project.
Example configuration:
```jsonc
{
// Required option
// Address that ssmanager is listening on
"manager_address": "127.0.0.1",
"manager_port": 6100,
// Or bind to a Unix Domain Socket
"manager_address": "/tmp/shadowsocks-manager.sock",
"servers": [
// These servers will be started automatically when ssmanager is started
],
// Outbound socket binds to this IP address
// For choosing different network interface on the same machine
"local_address": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
// Other options that may be passed directly to new servers
}
```
## Configuration
```jsonc
{
// LOCAL: Listen address. This is exactly the same as `locals[0]`
// SERVER: Bind address for remote sockets, mostly used for choosing interface
// Don't set it if you don't know what's this for.
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 1080,
// Extended multiple local configuration
"locals": [
{
// Basic configuration, a SOCKS5 local server
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 1080,
// OPTIONAL. Setting the `mode` for this specific local server instance.
// If not set, it will derive from the outer `mode`
"mode": "tcp_and_udp",
// OPTIONAL. Authentication configuration file
// Configuration file document could be found in the next section.
"socks5_auth_config_path": "/path/to/auth.json",
// OPTIONAL. Instance specific ACL
"acl": "/path/to/acl/file.acl",
// OPTIONAL. macOS launchd activate socket
"launchd_tcp_socket_name": "TCPListener",
"launchd_udp_socket_name": "UDPListener"
},
{
// SOCKS5, SOCKS4/4a local server
"protocol": "socks",
// Listen address
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 1081,
// OPTIONAL. Enables UDP relay
"mode": "tcp_and_udp",
// OPTIONAL. Customizing the UDP's binding address. Depending on `mode`, if
// - TCP is enabled, then SOCKS5's UDP Association command will return this address
// - UDP is enabled, then SOCKS5's UDP server will listen to this address.
"local_udp_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_udp_port": 2081,
// OPTIONAL. macOS launchd activate socket
"launchd_tcp_socket_name": "TCPListener",
"launchd_udp_socket_name": "UDPListener"
},
{
// Tunnel local server (feature = "local-tunnel")
"protocol": "tunnel",
// Listen address
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 5353,
// Forward address, the target of this tunnel
// In this example, this will build a `127.0.0.1:5353` -> `8.8.8.8:53` tunnel
"forward_address": "8.8.8.8",
"forward_port": 53,
// OPTIONAL. Customizing whether to start TCP and UDP tunnel
"mode": "tcp_only",
// OPTIONAL. macOS launchd activate socket
"launchd_tcp_socket_name": "TCPListener",
"launchd_udp_socket_name": "UDPListener"
},
{
// HTTP local server (feature = "local-http")
"protocol": "http",
// Listen address
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 3128,
// OPTIONAL. macOS launchd activate socket
"launchd_tcp_socket_name": "TCPListener"
},
{
// DNS local server (feature = "local-dns")
// This DNS works like China-DNS, it will send requests to `local_dns` and `remote_dns` and choose by ACL rules
"protocol": "dns",
// Listen address
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 53,
// OPTIONAL. DNS local server uses `tcp_and_udp` mode by default
"mode": "udp_only",
// Local DNS address, DNS queries will be sent directly to this address
"local_dns_address": "114.114.114.114",
// OPTIONAL. Local DNS's port, 53 by default
"local_dns_port": 53,
// Remote DNS address, DNS queries will be sent through ssserver to this address
"remote_dns_address": "8.8.8.8",
// OPTIONAL. Remote DNS's port, 53 by default
"remote_dns_port": 53,
// OPTIONAL. dns client cache size for fetching dns queries.
"client_cache_size": 5,
// OPTIONAL. macOS launchd activate socket
"launchd_tcp_socket_name": "TCPListener",
"launchd_udp_socket_name": "UDPListener"
},
{
// Tun local server (feature = "local-tun")
"protocol": "tun",
// Tun interface name
"tun_interface_name": "tun0",
// Tun interface address
//
// It has to be a host address in CIDR form
"tun_interface_address": "10.255.0.1/24"
},
{
// Transparent Proxy (redir) local server (feature = "local-redir")
"protocol": "redir",
// OPTIONAL: TCP type, may be different between platforms
// Linux/Android: redirect (default), tproxy
// FreeBSD/OpenBSD: pf (default), ipfw
// NetBSD/macOS/Solaris: pf (default), ipfw
"tcp_redir": "tproxy",
// OPTIONAL: UDP type, may be different between platforms
// Linux/Android: tproxy (default)
// FreeBSD/OpenBSD: pf (default)
"udp_redir": "tproxy"
},
{
// FakeDNS local server (feature = "local-fake-dns")
// FakeDNS is a DNS server that allocates an IPv4 / IPv6 address in a specific pool for each queries.
// Subsequence requests from the other local interfaces that the target addresses includes those allocated IP addresses,
// will be substituted back to their original domain name addresses.
// This feature is useful mostly for transparent proxy, which will allow the proxied domain names to be resolved remotely.
"protocol": "fake-dns",
// Listen address
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 10053,
// IPv4 address pool (for A records)
"fake_dns_ipv4_network": "10.255.0.0/16",
// IPv6 address pool (for AAAA records)
"fake_dns_ipv6_network": "fdf2:e786:ab40:9d2f::/64",
// Persistent storage for all allocated DNS records
"fake_dns_database_path": "/var/shadowsocks/fakedns.db",
// OPTIONAL: Record expire duration in seconds, 10s by default
"fake_dns_record_expire_duration": 10
}
],
// Server configuration
// listen on :: for dual stack support, no need add [] around.
"server": "::",
// Change to use your custom port number
"server_port": 8388,
"method": "aes-256-gcm",
"password": "your-password",
"plugin": "v2ray-plugin",
"plugin_opts": "mode=quic;host=github.com",
"plugin_args": [
// Each line is an argument passed to "plugin"
"--verbose"
],
"plugin_mode": "tcp_and_udp", // SIP003u, default is "tcp_only"
// Server: TCP socket timeout in seconds.
// Client: TCP connection timeout in seconds.
// Omit this field if you don't have specific needs.
"timeout": 7200,
// Extended multiple server configuration
// LOCAL: Choosing the best server to connect dynamically
// SERVER: Creating multiple servers in one process
"servers": [
{
// Fields are the same as the single server's configuration
// Individual servers can be disabled
// "disabled": true,
"address": "0.0.0.0",
"port": 8389,
"method": "aes-256-gcm",
"password": "your-password",
"plugin": "...",
"plugin_opts": "...",
"plugin_args": [],
"plugin_mode": "...",
"timeout": 7200,
// Customized weight for local server's balancer
//
// Weight must be in [0, 1], default is 1.0.
// The higher weight, the server may rank higher.
"tcp_weight": 1.0,
"udp_weight": 1.0,
// OPTIONAL. Instance specific ACL
"acl": "/path/to/acl/file.acl",
},
{
// Same key as basic format "server" and "server_port"
"server": "0.0.0.0",
"server_port": 8388,
"method": "chacha20-ietf-poly1305",
// Read the actual password from environment variable PASSWORD_FROM_ENV
"password": "${PASSWORD_FROM_ENV}"
},
{
// AEAD-2022
"server": "::",
"server_port": 8390,
"method": "2022-blake3-aes-256-gcm",
"password": "3SYJ/f8nmVuzKvKglykRQDSgg10e/ADilkdRWrrY9HU=",
// For Server (OPTIONAL)
// Support multiple users with Extensible Identity Header
// https://github.com/Shadowsocks-NET/shadowsocks-specs/blob/main/2022-2-shadowsocks-2022-extensible-identity-headers.md
"users": [
{
"name": "username",
// User's password must have the same length as server's password
"password": "4w0GKJ9U3Ox7CIXGU4A3LDQAqP6qrp/tUi/ilpOR9p4="
}
],
// For Client (OPTIONAL)
// If EIH enabled, then "password" should have the following format: iPSK:iPSK:iPSK:uPSK
// - iPSK is one of the middle relay servers' PSK, for the last `ssserver`, it must be server's PSK ("password")
// - uPSK is the user's PSK ("password")
// Example:
// "password": "3SYJ/f8nmVuzKvKglykRQDSgg10e/ADilkdRWrrY9HU=:4w0GKJ9U3Ox7CIXGU4A3LDQAqP6qrp/tUi/ilpOR9p4="
},
{
"...": "Any other fields",
// Some optional fields for this specific server
// Outbound socket options
// Linux Only (SO_MARK)
"outbound_fwmark": 255,
// FreeBSD only (SO_USER_COOKIE)
"outbound_user_cookie": 255,
// `SO_BINDTODEVICE` (Linux), `IP_BOUND_IF` (BSD), `IP_UNICAST_IF` (Windows) socket option for outbound sockets
"outbound_bind_interface": "eth1",
// Outbound socket bind() to this IP (choose a specific interface)
"outbound_bind_addr": "11.22.33.44",
// Outbound UDP socket allows IP fragmentation (default false)
"outbound_udp_allow_fragmentation": false,
}
],
// Global configurations for UDP associations
"udp_timeout": 300, // Timeout for UDP associations (in seconds), 5 minutes by default
"udp_max_associations": 512, // Maximum UDP associations to be kept in one server, unlimited by default
// Options for Manager
"manager_address": "127.0.0.1", // Could be a path to UNIX socket, /tmp/shadowsocks-manager.sock
"manager_port": 5300, // Not needed for UNIX socket
// DNS server's address for resolving domain names
// For *NIX and Windows, it uses system's configuration by default
//
// Value could be IP address of DNS server, for example, "8.8.8.8".
// DNS client will automatically request port 53 with both TCP and UDP protocol.
//
// - system, uses system provided API (`getaddrinfo` on *NIX)
//
// It also allows some pre-defined well-known public DNS servers:
// - google (TCP, UDP)
// - cloudflare (TCP, UDP)
// - cloudflare_tls (TLS), enable by feature "dns-over-tls"
// - cloudflare_https (HTTPS), enable by feature "dns-over-https"
// - quad9 (TCP, UDP)
// - quad9_tls (TLS), enable by feature "dns-over-tls"
//
// The field is only effective if feature "hickory-dns" is enabled.
"dns": "google",
// Configure `cache_size` for "hickory-dns" ResolverOpts. Set to "0" to disable DNS cache.
"dns_cache_size": 0,
// Mode, could be one of the
// - tcp_only
// - tcp_and_udp
// - udp_only
"mode": "tcp_only",
// TCP_NODELAY
"no_delay": false,
// Enables `SO_KEEPALIVE` and set `TCP_KEEPIDLE`, `TCP_KEEPINTVL` to the specified seconds
"keep_alive": 15,
// Soft and Hard limit of file descriptors on *NIX systems
"nofile": 10240,
// Try to resolve domain name to IPv6 (AAAA) addresses first
"ipv6_first": false,
// Set IPV6_V6ONLY for all IPv6 listener sockets
// Only valid for locals and servers listening on `::`
"ipv6_only": false,
// Outbound socket options
// Linux Only (SO_MARK)
"outbound_fwmark": 255,
// FreeBSD only (SO_USER_COOKIE)
"outbound_user_cookie": 255,
// `SO_BINDTODEVICE` (Linux), `IP_BOUND_IF` (BSD), `IP_UNICAST_IF` (Windows) socket option for outbound sockets
"outbound_bind_interface": "eth1",
// Outbound socket bind() to this IP (choose a specific interface)
"outbound_bind_addr": "11.22.33.44",
// Outbound UDP socket allows IP fragmentation (default false)
"outbound_udp_allow_fragmentation": false,
// Balancer customization
"balancer": {
// MAX Round-Trip-Time (RTT) of servers
// The timeout seconds of each individual checks
"max_server_rtt": 5,
// Interval seconds between each check
"check_interval": 10,
// Interval seconds between each check for the best server
// Optional. Specify to enable shorter checking interval for the best server only.
"check_best_interval": 5
},
// SIP008 Online Configuration Delivery
// https://shadowsocks.org/doc/sip008.html
"online_config": {
"config_url": "https://path-to-online-sip008-configuration",
// Optional. Seconds between each update to config_url. Default to 3600s
"update_interval": 3600,
// Optional. Whitelist of plugins (RECOMMENDED for all users)
// SECURITY: To avoid executing untrusted commands loaded from config_url
"allowed_plugins": [
"v2ray-plugin"
]
},
// Service configurations
// Logger configuration
"log": {
// Default log level to use, if not overridden by `writers`, default is `0`
// Equivalent to `-v` command line option
"level": 1,
// Default log format to use, if not overridden by `writers`
"format": {
// Euiqvalent to `--log-without-time`, default is `false`
"without_time": false,
},
// Advanced logging configuration for configuring multiple writers
// A console writer will be configured by default.
// Set this to empty array `[]` to disable logging completely
"writers": [
{
// Configure a console writer
// The inner fields are optional, if not set, it will use the default values
// To minimally configure a console writer, simply write `"console": {}`.
"console": {
"level": 2,
"format": {
"without_time": false,
}
}
},
{
// Configure a file writer, useful when running as a Windows Service
"file": {
// `level` and `format` can also be set here, if not set, it will use the default values
// Required. Directory to store log files
"directory": "/var/log/shadowsocks-rust",
// Optional. Log rotation frequency, must be one of the following:
// - never (default): This will result in log file located at `directory/prefix.suffix`
// - daily: A new log file in the format of `directory/prefix.yyyy-MM-dd.suffix` will be created daily
// - hourly: A new log file in the format of `directory/prefix.yyyy-MM-dd-HH.suffix` will be created hourly
"rotation": "never",
// Optional. Prefix of log file, default is one of `sslocal`, `ssserver`, `ssmanager` depending on the service being run.
"prefix": "shadowsocks-rust",
// Optional. Suffix of log file, default is `log`
"suffix": "log",
// Optional. If set, keeps the last N log files
"max_files": 5
}
},
{
// Configure a syslog writer, only supported on *nix system
"syslog": {
// `level` and `format` can also be set here, if not set, it will use the default values
// Optional. Set the "identity" when calling openlog(). Use current service name by default.
"identity": "identity_name",
// Optional. Set the "facility" when calling openlog(). 1 (user-level messages) by default. See RFC5424.
"facility": 1
}
}
]
},
// Runtime configuration
"runtime": {
// `single_thread` or `multi_thread`
"mode": "multi_thread",
// Worker threads that are used in multi-thread runtime
"worker_count": 10
}
}
```
### SOCKS5 Authentication Configuration
The configuration file is set by `socks5_auth_config_path` in `locals`.
```jsonc
{
// Password/Username Authentication (RFC1929)
"password": {
"users": [
{
"user_name": "USERNAME in UTF-8",
"password": "PASSWORD in UTF-8"
}
]
}
}
```
### Environment Variables
- `SS_SERVER_PASSWORD`: A default password for servers that created from command line argument (`--server-addr`)
- `SS_SYSTEM_DNS_RESOLVER_FORCE_BUILTIN`: `"system"` DNS resolver force use system's builtin (`getaddrinfo` in *NIX)
## Supported Ciphers
### AEAD 2022 Ciphers
- `2022-blake3-aes-128-gcm`, `2022-blake3-aes-256-gcm`
- `2022-blake3-chacha20-poly1305`, `2022-blake3-chacha8-poly1305`
These Ciphers require `"password"` to be a Base64 string of key that have **exactly the same length** of Cipher's Key Size. It is recommended to use `ssservice genkey -m "METHOD_NAME"` to generate a secured and safe key.
### AEAD Ciphers
- `chacha20-ietf-poly1305`
- `aes-128-gcm`, `aes-256-gcm`
### Stream Ciphers
- `plain` or `none` (No encryption, only used for debugging or with plugins that ensure transport security)
<details><summary>Deprecated</summary>
<p>
- `table`
- `aes-128-cfb`, `aes-128-cfb1`, `aes-128-cfb8`, `aes-128-cfb128`
- `aes-192-cfb`, `aes-192-cfb1`, `aes-192-cfb8`, `aes-192-cfb128`
- `aes-256-cfb`, `aes-256-cfb1`, `aes-256-cfb8`, `aes-256-cfb128`
- `aes-128-ctr`
- `aes-192-ctr`
- `aes-256-ctr`
- `camellia-128-cfb`, `camellia-128-cfb1`, `camellia-128-cfb8`, `camellia-128-cfb128`
- `camellia-192-cfb`, `camellia-192-cfb1`, `camellia-192-cfb8`, `camellia-192-cfb128`
- `camellia-256-cfb`, `camellia-256-cfb1`, `camellia-256-cfb8`, `camellia-256-cfb128`
- `rc4-md5`
- `chacha20-ietf`
</p>
</details>
## ACL
`sslocal`, `ssserver`, and `ssmanager` support ACL file with syntax like [shadowsocks-libev](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev). Some examples could be found in [here](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/tree/master/acl).
### Available sections
- For local servers (`sslocal`, `ssredir`, ...)
- Modes:
- `[bypass_all]` - ACL runs in `WhiteList` mode. Bypasses all addresses except those matched any rules.
- `[proxy_all]` - ACL runs in `BlackList` mode. Proxies all addresses except those matched any rules. (default)
- Rules:
- `[bypass_list]` - Rules for connecting directly
- `[proxy_list]` - Rules for connecting through proxies
- For remote servers (`ssserver`)
- Modes:
- `[reject_all]` - ACL runs in `WhiteList` mode. Rejects all clients except those matched any rules.
- `[accept_all]` - ACL runs in `BlackList` mode. Accepts all clients except those matched any rules. (default)
- `[outbound_block_all]` - Outbound ACL runs in `WhiteList` mode. Blockes all outbound addresses except those matched any rules.
- `[outbound_allow_all]` - Outbound ACL runs in `BlackList` mode. Allows all outbound addresses except those matched any rules. (default)
- Rules:
- `[white_list]` - Rules for accepted clients
- `[black_list]` - Rules for rejected clients
- `[outbound_block_list]` - Rules for blocking outbound addresses.
- `[outbound_allow_list]` - Rules for allowing outbound addresses.
### Example
```ini
# SERVERS
# For ssserver, accepts requests from all clients by default
[accept_all]
# Blocks these clients
[black_list]
1.2.3.4
127.0.0.1/8
# Disallow these outbound addresses
[outbound_block_list]
127.0.0.1/8
::1
# Using regular expression
^[a-z]{5}\.baidu\.com
# Match exactly
|baidu.com
# Match with subdomains
# |☃-⌘.com - WRONG
|xn----dqo34k.com
# ||джpумлатест.bрфa - WRONG
# CLIENTS
# For sslocal, ..., bypasses all targets by default
[bypass_all]
# Proxy these addresses
[proxy_list]
```
## Useful Tools
1. `ssurl` is for encoding and decoding ShadowSocks URLs (SIP002). Example:
```plain
ss://YWVzLTI1Ni1jZmI6cGFzc3dvcmQ@127.0.0.1:8388/?plugin=obfs-local%3Bobfs%3Dhttp%3Bobfs-host%3Dwww.baidu.com
```
## Notes
It supports the following features:
- [x] SOCKS5 CONNECT command
- [x] SOCKS5 UDP ASSOCIATE command (partial)
- [x] SOCKS4/4a CONNECT command
- [x] Various crypto algorithms
- [x] Load balancing (multiple servers) and server delay checking
- [x] [SIP004](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/30) AEAD ciphers
- [x] [SIP003](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/28) Plugins
- [x] [SIP003u](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/180) Plugin with UDP support
- [x] [SIP002](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/27) Extension ss URLs
- [x] [SIP022](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/196) AEAD 2022 ciphers
- [x] HTTP Proxy Supports ([RFC 7230](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230) and [CONNECT](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-01))
- [x] Defend against replay attacks, [shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org#44](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/44)
- [x] Manager APIs, supporting [Manage Multiple Users](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/wiki/Manage-Multiple-Users)
- [x] ACL (Access Control List)
- [x] Support HTTP/HTTPS Proxy protocol
## TODO
- [x] Documentation
- [x] Extend configuration format
- [x] Improved logging format (waiting for the new official log crate)
- [x] Support more ciphers without depending on `libcrypto` (waiting for an acceptable Rust crypto lib implementation)
- [x] Windows support.
- [x] Build with stable `rustc` ~~(blocking by `crypto2`)~~.
- [x] Support HTTP Proxy protocol
- [x] AEAD ciphers. (proposed in [SIP004](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/30), still under discussion)
- [x] Choose server based on delay #152
## License
[The MIT License (MIT)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Y. T. CHUNG
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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