On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:44:59 +0000
unknown <unkn...@pgpru.com> wrote:

> If I run previous version of tor Linux-Debian packages and type 'ps aux | 
> grep tor'
> then the first field is the user "debian-tor".
> 
> After upgrade that field displays only uid (106) but /etc/passwd for 
> debian-tor is correct.
> 
> I use transparent firewalling for rerouting local traffic into Tor 
> and use a name "debian-tor" as iptables option.
> 
> After that update this option is not working. I just replace "debian-tor" to 
> "106" in iptables rules and
> everything works again. I think some leakage of private information is 
> possible, depends of personal 
> firewall settings but not significant. Most of programms just not works with 
> wrong username firewalling.
> 

Sorry for the misinformation. ps aux always displays numerical ID's for long 
usernames. 
I trying to repeat this situation on another Debian Linux machine with similar 
versions updates and 
iptables settings and got no results. Everything works fine without any 
troubles.
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