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The reason I wrote these notes is that I have some issues with the default readme provided with Synergy. First off, it instructs you to copy Synergy right into the /usr/bin directory. That's for the OS to manage, not for user based installs. Second, it instructs the user to enable root which brings up security concerns. It is a good attempt, but it sounds like the author does not quite have a full Unix backgroundLast the instructions use chmod 777 which leaves things even wider open.

Setup of Command Client

Setup of /usr/local/bin

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Download and unzip synergy.

Next, copy Synergy to the /usr/local/bin directorychange to the unzipped folder and manually install Synergy,

cd ~/Downloads/synergy-1.4.4-MacOSX106-Universal # Sample location
sudo chown root:wheel *
sudo chmod g+xr synergyc synergys
sudo chmod o+xr synergyc synergys
udo chmod g+rw synergy.conf.example
sudo chmod o+rw synergy.conf.example
sudo cp -R synergy* /usr/local/bin/

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