On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 at 12:41 Dennis Christ <li...@ollic.de> wrote: > Yes that is what i tried to do. But it does not work in my case. > > $ arm > [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/tor/control_auth_cookie' > > Even if my user is in the group debian-tor the user has no right to > access /var/lib/tor. > > $ ls -l /var/lib | grep tor > drwx--S--- 4 debian-tor debian-tor 4096 Nov 12 12:38 tor > > > Am 12.11.2016 um 10:33 schrieb Louie Cardone-Noott: > > On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, at 07:16 PM, diffusae wrote: > >> Yes, you are right. But CookieAuthentication should work. You cannot > >> query all of the connections without access to /var/lib/tor. You only > >> will see circuits. I suggest to use "sudo -u debian-tor arm", if you > >> like to use all of the arm pages. Otherwise you have to change the > >> permissions. In my case, there is also the setgid flags on the > >> directories (2700 drwx--S---). > > Sorry not fully read the correspondence here but perhaps a tidier option > > might be the one recommended on the tor website[1] of doing > > > > sudo adduser $USER debian-tor > > > > The alternative of running as the debian-tor user is a 'bad idea', see > > [2] from last July > > > > [1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en#after > > [2] > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-July/009608.html >
Hi You could just modify the systemd service file for tor, with something like ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -Z -m 02755 -o debian-tor -g debian-tor -d /var/run/tor ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -Z -m 02750 -o debian-tor -g debian-tor -d /var/log/tor Cheers Seb
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