Re: [tor-relays] switching from root to unprivileged user

2018-02-15 Thread Quintin
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:48 PM Zack Weinberg wrote: > No, 'ps' should show the unprivileged user. Check whether you have a > "User" setting in your torrc. (I think George was referring > specifically to the way FreeBSD pkgsrc configures tor.) Adding a User setting and updating some permission

Re: [tor-relays] switching from root to unprivileged user

2018-02-14 Thread TorGate
ok thanks regards Steffen TorGate torgate(at)linux-hus.dk > Am 14.02.2018 um 20:48 schrieb Zack Weinberg : > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Quintin wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:34 PM George wrote: >>> >>> TorGate: is this a god ide tor running as root ? >>> >>> It doesn't

Re: [tor-relays] switching from root to unprivileged user

2018-02-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Quintin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:34 PM George wrote: >> >> TorGate: >> > is this a god ide tor running as root ? >> >> It doesn't run as root. root starts the daemon, then switches over to >> unprivileged/nologin _tor user. > > > Is this the case even if