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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/24/13 11:16 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti
(naif) wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/24/13 11:11 PM, Griffin Boyce
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<div class="gmail_quote">Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <span
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<div class="im">To fix that need it would be nice to make a
sort of "hosting provider"</div>
(using existing tool for customer management, payments,<br>
server/application deployment & maintenance) to host Tor
Exit.</blockquote>
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<div>This would definitely be cool, though honestly I was
thinking more pre-configured bundles for common ISP(s).</div>
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Well, it would still need to have some kind of "Web management"
software to let the non-unix-skilled person carry on regular
maintenace procedure without a unix terminal such as:<br>
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- Configure Tor (nickname, bandwidth, etc)<br>
- Check if there's an upgrade & upgrade Tor when needed<br>
- See if Tor is running / ability to shutdown / restart it<br>
<br>
That's something that should need to be pre-installed to
facilitate the regular maintenance operations for that
non-unix-skilled persons.<br>
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Does something like that still exists ?<br>
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Got an idea of an alternative solution to the problem "Let someone
without unix-skills to setup and maintain it's own Tor Exit on their
favorite server provider".<br>
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We can make a "GUI Application" that let this kind of user to:<br>
- Configure Tor (nickname, bandwidth, etc)<br>
- Check if there's an upgrade & upgrade Tor when needed<br>
- See if Tor is running / ability to shutdown / restart it<br>
<br>
That kind of application automate via SSH/SCP the procedure
explained below.<br>
The procedure would be finely tuned for all the different main unix
operating systems available (that are the one ready-made on the
vps/server provider of installable list).<br>
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The user experience would be:<br>
- Start the application<br>
- Select operating system version (Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 6, CentOS X,
etc, etc)<br>
- Insert hostname, root's username, password<br>
- Configure visually on the UI:<br>
- Nickname<br>
- Bandwidth<br>
- Exit Policy<br>
- Click "Deploy Tor"<br>
<br>
Et voilà, the tor intance would be installed and configured on the
remote server trough SSH/SCP for that specific OS version.<br>
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Other options provided to the end-user by the UI would complete the
maintenance operation required:<br>
- Check for upgrade<br>
- Upgrade<br>
- Start / Stop / Restart<br>
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With such approach you would still had made possible for non-unix
users to deploy and maintain tor on unix's vps of all the provider.<br>
<br>
Fabio<br>
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