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FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

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[Solved] Which user/group for tor

Hello everyone,
after a fresh install of tor and vidalia I tried two ways to get it running.
1) From the vidalia user interface. Works fine.
2) From the command line. Works only as root. If I try to run tor as normal user I get a warning that /var/lib/tor is not owned by me. (user and group of this directory are "tor"), I can change the owner to my normal user to solve the problem.
But for me one question remains: Is this a good way to get tor running? Which users and/or groups should I use?

Last edited by FlowIt (2015-02-04 12:43:08)

noctavian

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Registered: 2013-07-11

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Re: [Solved] Which user/group for tor

I don't have any experience with tor, but why don't you add your user to the tor group?

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 243

Re: [Solved] Which user/group for tor

Tried this, too, but still complaining. I have to change the owner. Simply adding me to the tor group is not enough (of couse I logged out before testing)

SidK

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Registered: 2011-03-03

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Re: [Solved] Which user/group for tor

You should start the tor deamon using systemd:

systemctl start tor

This will start the daemon as the tor user.

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 243

Re: [Solved] Which user/group for tor

Works like a charm. Thanks.