We walk in the dark, to serve the light.

Current version: 1.1

shadowsocks is a lightweight tunnel proxy which can help you get through firewalls

lightsocks is a shadowsocks client serving as a transparent proxy. Once set up, you can visit localhost:local_port as if you are visiting target_server:target_port.

First, set up shadowsocks server on your VPS.

Clone lightsocks on your client machine. Don't forget to install submodules.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/clowwindy/lightsocks.git

Then edit config.json, change the following values:

server          your shadowsocks server ip or hostname
server_port     your shadowsocks server port
password        your shadowsocks password
method          encryption method, "bf-cfb", "aes-256-cfb", "des-cfb", "rc4", etc. Default is table
local_port      local port
target_server   the server you want to visit, for example, github.com
target_port     the server port you want to visit, for example, 22

Run python lightsocks.py on your client machine.

visit localhost:local_port as if you are visiting target_server:target_port.

Q: How to setup git ssh with Github?

A: Edit config.json, set target_server to github.com, set target_port to 22. Run python lightsocks.py

Edit ~/.ssh/config, add the following:

host github.com
port 1082
hostname 127.0.0.1

Replace 1082 with your local_port if your local_port is not 1082. Then you can git clone [email protected]:myname/myrepo.git

Q: What about git:// protocol?

A: Similar to the above. But you'll set both target_port and local_port to 9418. Then add '127.0.0.1 github.com' in your /etc/hosts file. Then you can git clone git://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks.git