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Tor permission error
I found out that tor was blocked by SElinux.
I disabled SElinux and everything was working.
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Tor permission error
When you want to start via command line you need to do it as the correct user. As the message says it expects debian-tor. So call Tor in the following way:
sudo -u debian-tor tor
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Is there a way in tor to tell to prefer tor relays from another country?
Well, it depends on the relay's place in the chain:
Entry node - yes, you can use EntryNodes {us},{fr} for example, to specify the countries USA and France
Middle node - via configuration file - no, ...
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Confused with user running tor (Address already in use. Is Tor already running?)
You Tor is running as a systemd service so trying to run a second instance manually won't work. If you run "sudo systemctl stop tor" then you can use the tor command because you've stopped the process ...
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Why is the configuration generated with Arm's setup not persistent?
You are not doing anything wrong. The message you see is in fact a false alarm. According to the arm maintainer:
That message simply means that tor is currently running with the 'RunAsDaemon'
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How to use FTP with Tor?
You need to make sure that these lines exist in the serverside torrc configuration:
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/ftp-service/
HiddenServicePort 21 127.0.0.1:21
You should also make sure you use ...
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Use Tor browser as non-root Linux
You can run any command as a different user using sudo:
sudo -u my_user tor-browser-en
If you need to use multiple commands you can do this:
sudo -u my_user sh -c "first && second"
If you ...
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How to start tor on boot in Raspian Jessie?
The best way is to use a three components:
/etc/rc.local - It's a script that is executed on boot. I'm using it to start the components I need - see how downstrings.
A daemontools package - it's ...
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How to start tor on boot in Raspian Jessie?
You can make Tor start on boot by running (as root):
update-rc.d tor enable
Because you compiled Tor from source, you may not have the files to automatically start Tor at boot. If it says some file ...
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Running Tor in /opt
In complement of Alexey's detailed answer, let me add the following.
As indicated, for instance, here, the simpler way to install tor browser in /opt on Linux is probably the following:
Download a ...
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Does installing Tor as root user cause problems?
No.
The tor package available through apt-get isn't needed or related to using Tor Browser.
As such the steps you performed as root won't affect the steps you performed to install Tor Browser, ...
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debian-tor vs User
debian-tor is an service account (group) created by Tor during installation. It has it's shell acces set to /bin/flase which means you'll be logged out immediately when trying to login using it.
You ...
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Confused with user running tor (Address already in use. Is Tor already running?)
Try -
sudo systemctl stop tor
In the worst case scenario -
sudo killall tor
This will kill all the process related to tor
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Debian Buster Tor crash upon attempt to re-install it anew
This appears to be that issue that is reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1798999
After you updated, your apparmor profile probably got screwed up. The suggested fix ...
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Where can I download .asc public key for Tor Browser?
The WKD URL for the validation key for TBB is
https://openpgpkey.torproject.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/hu/kounek7zrdx745qydx6p59t9mqjpuhdf
However, using the command given in the official ...
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Where can I download .asc public key for Tor Browser?
I don't know who the person is that wrote that, but the official documentation searches the keyserver to get it. See here: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to-verify-signature/
On Linux you ...
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I can't import the Tor gpg debian repository keys
Grab the latest build of Tor project from their download page for linux. I just did it and was 8.5.1.
Make sure you are in the same directory you downloaded the Tor project in to. In my case I ...
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Tails: How to connect Tails to a Samba network-share?
Yes, from the top bar of the desktop:
Applications -> Accessories -> Files
On the Files window, on the bookmarks bar on the left, scroll to the bottom of the list and select Other Locations.
At the ...
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Why does the tor daemon start automatically in Ubuntu/Debian?
Normally users would expect network services that are installed to start automatically, this is true for other network services under debian or ubuntu like httpd or sshd.
If you're running a relay or ...
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/var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (root, 0) but by debian-tor (110)
The first line of the warn message has some hints. The directory /var/lib/tor is owned by the user debian-tor. You executed sudo tor which means that the Tor process is run by the root user. This ...
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Unable to receive and add Tor's keys to apt
Works here, either the servers were down (unlikely) or you can't access them because they are blocked (e.g. Firewall)
You can import the key manually like this:
gpg --import PATH_TO_KEY
gpg --export ...
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Root access in Tor 6,0.5?
Port 9150 is a Tor SOCKS port by default, so something was using your local SOCKS[port 9150] and your local ControlPort to control Tor via telnet protocol, default port is 9151. The Tor itself seems ...
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Noticed an outdated instruction in Tor documentation site, how to correct it?
Take a look at the Contact page.
Your best bet would probably either be the IRC channel, or to Tweet them.
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Running Tor in /opt
So - here are your answers, step by step:
Q1 Tor has no folder-hardcode in it's entire source, and if you're about to use /opt/tordir or anything else that is physically reachable in your FileSystem ...
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Run tor-browser-bundle with another user
I guess I'll try to formulate a full answer to this.
Your privilege seperation is security theatre.
Running Tor Browser as another user inside of the same X environment means the Tor Browser, ...
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Tails 2.3 not starting(stuck @ LSB , live-config) in Debian Jessie Virt-Manager (inside Win10 Virtualbox VM)
In every Linux you must not rely on package-provided DKMS/VirtualBox modules!! It's a common trouble-starter. Build them from guest additions ISO from source by hand, selecting appropriate version to ...
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Compile Tor Browser on Raspberry Pi 2
Tor Browser does not work on ARM as of this time.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12631
TOR ticket tracker for porting to ARM hasn't had much traction at all.
I wouldn't expect this ...
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Compile Tor Browser on Raspberry Pi 2
Speaking from experience, this is not currently possible.
During the compiling process, the make script will download some binaries that are only built for X86 and not for ARM and therefore the ...
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Displaying the Tor circuit via terminal
To get circuit information you'll need a ControlPort. Here's a couple example scripts that provide circuit information...
Script to list current circuits
Script to show information about exit relays ...
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Follow-up question: Why my log is not showing tor_notices.log and tor_traces.log?
I'll summarize the discussion from the comments and the chat here:
The original poster had a system-wide installation of Tor in their Debian system and furthermore installed a Tor Browser.
The system-...
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