On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Quintin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:34 PM George <[email protected]> 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 "ps -C tor u" shows it runs as root?
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.) _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
