<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If you’re just trying to use nyx as your normal user, add your user to the debian-tor group. There is a unix control socket activated by default which is readable by the debian-tor user.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After you join the debian-tor group log out and back in, and then just:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">$ nyx</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-m</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 19 apr 2020, alle ore 03:54, Kathi Hilton <<a href="mailto:kathihil935@gmail.com" class="">kathihil935@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class=""><font size="+1" class="">Switch from root to user = su usrname
>Password. The problems start <br class="">
when I try and su to debian-tor. First I get a query for a
password which <br class="">
it doesn't have. So I make a pass for debian-tor and enter it
when I su to <br class="">
debian-tor. I enter whoami and the response is: user and not
debian-tor. <br class="">
With or without a password it doesn't work. Secondly, if I su
debia-tor ><br class="">
passwrd - sudo -u debian-tor nyx it produces a page and a half
of pure <br class="">
gibberish. Sudo -i to root and enter nyx, it operates perfectly;
and yes <br class="">
I understand I shouldn't run nyx as root.<br class="">
<br class="">
How do I become debian-tor so I can operate my bridge correctly?
Adriann</font><br class="">
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