Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-23 Thread lists
On 23.03.2020 09:35, Roger Dingledine wrote: Sounds like a "feel free to do whichever one you like more, but for our documentation, we should be pointing people to adduser" situation. Thanks. OK, adduser for debian and derivatives documentation. (Is my everyday distri anyway) AFAIK adduser i

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:55:39PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Damian Johnson wrote: > > > activities from the command line. First, "sudo apt install nyx". > > > Second, as the user that will be running nyx, run "sudo adduser $USER > > > debian-tor" to ad

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:35:28PM +0100, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > > Whereas if you add your own user to the debian-tor group, and then run > > nyx > > as yourself, you are better isolated from pieces of Tor that nyx has no > > business being able to access. > > Is there anything wrong with

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-21 Thread lists
On 20.03.2020 09:19, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 07:57:53PM +0100, Mario Costa wrote: Or you could just add your user to the debian-tor group, so it will be able to access the nyx control Unix socket. This is definitely imo the better approach rather than sudo'ing your nyx

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-21 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Damian Johnson wrote: activities from the command line. First, "sudo apt install nyx". Second, as the user that will be running nyx, run "sudo adduser $USER debian-tor" to add your user to the debian-tor group so it can reach Tor's controlsocket. Then log

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-20 Thread Damian Johnson
> The Debian/Ubuntu instructions for doing this properly are listed at e.g. > https://bugs.torproject.org/25890#comment:1 > Or I'll say the updated version here: > """ > You might like to use the nyx relay monitor to watch your relay's > activities from the command line. First, "sudo apt install ny

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-20 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 07:57:53PM +0100, Mario Costa wrote: > Or you could just add your user to the debian-tor group, so it will be able > to access the nyx control Unix socket. This is definitely imo the better approach rather than sudo'ing your nyx to the debian-tor user. If you sudo to debi

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-20 Thread Mario Costa
Or you could just add your user to the debian-tor group, so it will be able to access the nyx control Unix socket. > Il giorno 19 mar 2020, alle ore 19:55, li...@for-privacy.net ha scritto: > > On 19.03.2020 02:28, Kathi wrote: > >> NOTE: I know tor.Nyx should not be run as root, I get that. T

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-19 Thread lists
On 19.03.2020 02:28, Kathi wrote: NOTE: I know tor.Nyx should not be run as root, I get that. Tor/Nyx are running as root. I don’t know how to use debian-tor as usr. ~$ sudo -u debian-tor nyx -i 9051 .bashrc aliases for lazy admin ;-) # My aliases for nyx (tor & tor-instances) alias nyx='su

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

2020-03-19 Thread Felix
Hi Kathi Am 19.03.2020 um 02:28 schrieb Kathi: > Modem Zyxel C3000 _was_ set to port forward on 9001, 9030, and 9050 Port forwarding for Or/Dirport is necessary. A forward of 9050 (in its default usage) is not good. It's a SocksPort. If somebody finds it ey can use it as open Proxy. > IP 192.XXX