On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:05:43 -0400 Ringo <2600den...@gmail.com> wrote: >" I have a laptop with the Debian Lenny AMD64 and I want to start >several Tor daemons in one moment, each for every user." > >I'm not sure how to do it for each user, but basically you have to >give each tor it's own torrc. So for instance, you can create >/etc/tor/tor2 /etc/tor/tor3, etc. > >In the torrc make sure you change these values: > >DataDirectory /only/for/use/by/one/tor/instance > >When you launch Tor use "tor -f /torrc/location" so that it uses the >right config. I remember there were some permissions issues but I think >you can probably figure it out. > Each instance will also need its own SocksPort and ControlPort. Running more than one sounds like a loss of some of the anonymity to me, particularly if each user specifies different lists of nodes to be used for various purposes.
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