Hi all, Did tor ever open the control port by default? It's not doing so now.
I can certainly understand why it might not be a good idea to open the control port without an explicit request to do so. However, the flip side is that a default installation of tor (especially a packaged one where the user hasn't had to familiarize themselves with the conf files and tor starts automatically at boot-time) can't be used by a controller out-of-the-box on *nix. This was certainly my experience of the (rather old) tor package for kubuntu. The solution mght be to include a configuration script with tor. Something the controller could call upon to help the user through a bit of default coniguration to make tor controller-friendly. This script could also run through the boot-time setup of tor. I guess it could even help configure privoxy/polipo in a way that is useful to tor. Has anyone given any thought to this? Controller issues aside it would be a very useful bridge between installing tor on *nix and getting it up and running. On the same note, is anyone familiar with a multi-distro setup script that this could be based on? -- KlamAV - An Anti-Virus Manager for KDE - http://www.klamav.net TorK - A Tor Controller For KDE - http://tork.sf.net
