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From: Dererk <[email protected]> Subject: Vidalia-Tor cooperation proposal To: Peter Palfrader <[email protected]> CC: Vern Sun <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:53:33 -0300 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Helo Weasel! I don't know if you remember me from DC9, unfortunately I didn't introduced myself properly :-( Well, let me go straight to the subject: I wanted to contact you so we could make some plans together in the Vidalia-Tor integration. I think we have very good stuff to start with, and that we will end up with a great integration. First in the list, there's a point you already pointed me to correctly a few months ago when I asked you for sponsoring, and that is to create a mechanism in which Vidalia can interact with Tor daemon to tell it not to start if certain conditions are met. This conditions are met when users decide to launch Tor's binary from Vidalia interface, instead that talking though other communication methods. What I wrongly do now is to ask users to disable Tor's initscripts. Further more I give some ideas that came into my mind to accomplish a better approach to this problem. In relation to this matter, there's an extremely interesting point that I've found to accomplish this, and it's very very simple to achieve: A better solution on Debian would be to use Tor's ControlSocket, which allows Vidalia to talk to Tor via a Unix domain socket, and could possibly be enabled by default in Tor's Debian packages. Vidalia can then authenticate to Tor using filesystem-based (cookie) authentication if the user running Vidalia is also in the debian-tor group. In the meantime, I thought about a really stupid solution, but that temporarily solves some of this problems This is for Vidalia to make a flag, let's say a file-touch (just a flag file) to /etc/tor/tor.d/ , that Tor's daemon could use to know to avoid starting, or stuff like that. Generally speaking, what do you think about this both points? What's your opinion about this matter? Hope we can work together about this stuff, and thanks in advance. Greetings, Dererk -- BOFH excuse #359: YOU HAVE AN I/O ERROR -> Incompetent Operator error. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
