Re: [tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-03 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Damian Johnson: >> That script is stable, no bug reports in a while, stem is working fine. :) > > Great! > >> That authentication line and "password" is only in there to make stem >> happy. > > Stem should be perfectly fine without providing a password (that's an > optional argument). If your pr

Re: [tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-01 Thread Damian Johnson
> That script is stable, no bug reports in a while, stem is working fine. :) Great! > That authentication line and "password" is only in there to make stem > happy. Stem should be perfectly fine without providing a password (that's an optional argument). If your proxy handles the authentication

Re: [tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-01 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi Damian, thank you for your e-mail! That script is stable, no bug reports in a while, stem is working fine. :) That authentication line and "password" is only in there to make stem happy. help_check_tor_bootstrap.py/stem isn't "really" using Tor's control port. It connects to Control Port Filt

[tor-dev] Whonix's help_check_tor_bootstrap.py

2014-05-01 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi adrelanos, I just noticed that Whonix uses Stem. That's great! Just a few quick thoughts... https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/whonix_shared/usr/lib/whonixcheck/help_check_tor_bootstrap.py > with Controller.from_port(port = p) as controller: > > if os.path.exists("/usr/share/whonix