On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:34:40PM +0100, Chris Whittleston wrote: > Previously, I've run arm using 'sudo -u debian-tor arm'. As was mentioned > here previously, this is not how you should run it - in fact there is a bit > of documentation to suggest how it should be done.
Yep. See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10700 for the discussion. > Unfortunately I'm having > some issues getting arm working correctly as described here in step 14: > > https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en#after > > Having added my user (pi) to the debian-tor group, I try to run 'arm' and > get the following: > > Failed to read authentication cookie (permission denied): > /var/run/tor/control.authcookie What Tor version are you using? There was a bug in Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha through 0.2.5.6-alpha that broke cookie auth for this situation: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12864 It is fixed in 0.2.5.7-rc. > I've tried reinstalling arm, relogged and checked that I'm in the right > group still using 'groups' (which I am) - no joy. > > CookieAuthentication wasn't initially enabled, turning it on makes no > difference, I get the same error. As Grace pointed out, torrc isn't the only config file that your Tor deb uses. > Am I missing something when it comes to setting up CookieAuthentication? I > guess I must be...although it seems strange that I was getting that error > even with CookieAuthentication disabled. If the Tor version hint doesn't do it for you, I'm not sure what the next step is. Hopefully it does. :) --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
