On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:39:39AM -0000, haxy wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 11:35:22PM -0000, haxy wrote: > >> Does OnionShare work safely in Qubes? > >> > >> Gave it a try with an AppVm based on a qubes-debian template but wasn't > >> able to get it working. > >> > >> Haven't been able to find any posts in the qubes users or devel forums > >> about this. Did see some discussion on the whonix forum but that looks > >> to > >> still be in the development stage. > >> > >> Would it be possible using a non-qubes debian or fedora hvm? > >> > >> > > > > You don't say why you weren't able to get it working, or what steps you > > took to troubleshoot the problem. > > I can confirm that it works fine on a standard Debian appVM. > > > > From your reference to whonix, I suspect that that is your problem. I > > don't use whonix so cant check this but I believe that onionshare relies > > on access to a tor control port opened with Tor Browser. I think that > > the whonix design would preclude this. > > > > You can try with a normal qube connected to sys-firewall. You can't use > > the normal qubes torVM because that doesn't have the control port open, > > but with some minor modifications you can fix this, and then try to run > > onionshare there. > > > > I don't believe there are any "safety" issues. > > > > unman > > @ unman: Thanks and you are right. I should have included the steps > taken to troubleshoot. > > Steps taken: > > 1. Using a cloned qubes-debian template created an AppVM. > 2. Installed onionshare via debian apt-get. > 3. Was able to open onionshare but not able to connect using sys-firewall > as the Net-VM. > 4. Deleted the AppVM, created new AppVM and reinstalled via debian > apt-get. Although onionshare appeared to install properly, onionshare was > not accessable via konsole nor visible in file manager. > 5. Installed in the cloned template with the same results. > > unman quote: I can confirm that it works fine on a standard Debian appVM. > > As I'm unsure, are you referring to an AppVM based on the included qubes > debian template? > > Maybe a problem with the debian repo? Did you install via debian repo or > do a build? >
I used a qube based on the standard Debian template. Cloned with git and installed the dependencies, and the TBB. Started the TorBrowser. Ran the onionshare-gui script. Tested the connection to TorBrowser from File-Settings. Shared a file. I'll check using the Debian package. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170104030248.GB28071%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
