I'm using the tor expert bundle for a project and need to configure tor to make a password for control port access to use for an auto switcher. Tried to do tor --hash-password
Password but seems like tor is not in the system yet.
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If you used a TBB, especially on Windows - of course it's not in your PATH, so just typing tor xxxx
will trigger an error. In your TBB install folder find tor.exe
(Windows) or tor
(non-windows) binary, change directory into this folder and make a command call there. In non-windows use ./tor
instead of tor
if it still fails. NEVER add tor binary to your PATH variable regardless of the OS you're using : it's insecure.
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1it can be easily detected by commands like
which tor
with even an unprivileged users, it can be possibe abused by malware attempting to attack the host by starting with alternative options and command protocol and later be configured through it. And many more– Alexey Vesnin ♦Mar 16, 2018 at 14:15 -
Alexey, can you explain your thoughts on having tor available to unpriviledged users? I installed tor on a Linux machine on which I don't have superuser status using Homebrew. It works fine. Why should this be a problem?– DiagonJul 3, 2019 at 11:01
tor
at the command prompt won't work because it's not been placed into a directory that's in your path.)/<path>/<to>/<tor>/tor --hash-password <password>