Accessing a Shadowsocks with V2Ray Plugin Server from a Linux Client

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Download shadowsocks-rust for Linux 64-bit from GitHub. Extract the contents of the archive.

Download the v2ray-plugin for Linux 64-bit from GitHub. Copy the binary into the same folder as the extracted shadowsocks binaries.

Create a config.json file like this:

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{
    "server":"your.host.name",
    "server_port":443,
    "local_address": "127.0.0.1",
    "local_port": 1080,
    "password":"yourshadowsocksserverpassword",
    "timeout":300,
    "method":"chacha20-ietf-poly1305",
    "plugin":"./v2ray-plugin_linux_amd64",
    "plugin_opts":"path=/yourpath;host=your.host.name;tls"
}

Start shadowsocks running:

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./sslocal -c config.json

Configure Firefox network settings to use the SOCKS5 proxy server that is now listening on 127.0.0.1 port 1080. Also set Firefox to proxy DNS queries over the SOCKS5 server.