On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 9/1/2013 4:37 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> I pushed updates for the Tor packages in fink in 10.5 and 10.6. I'm going to >> add it to 10.7 also. I emailed Jack Fink, the listed maintainer, back in >> May but didn't get any response, so I thought it would be OK to go ahead and >> do it. > > I saw you asking on #fink asking about making a 'tor' user. Adding a new > passwd-* user should be easy, though this would be the first stand alone user > that is not part of the passwd-core set of files. I had previously tested > making a new user (for quagga) and have a .info candidate, but never got > around to committing it [1]. Feel free to take that and use it as a template > for your tor user. It should only need string replacements for what 'tor' > needs. Please test carefully since I haven't touched it in 8 months, but it > /should/ work. If it does, check again before committing in case something > policy related comes up. > > Hanspeter > > [1] > <http://cvs.snaggledworks.com/viewvc.cgi/fink/3rdparty/main/finkinfo/base/passwd-quagga.info?view=log>
I think for now, I got it working using 'nobody' as the user, so I'll leave it like that. The main reason for having its own user is for use in firewall rules, but that's an advanced case, so chances are that user could switch the user manually. .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
