<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 09.08.2006 at 23:59 News Assi wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Hi,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've installed your "only tor & provoxy" package, but it seems so, that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">no user will be created by this package, how can I fix that?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm quite confident that the package was supposed to create a user for tor to run under. As a quick fix, here are some pointers for creating a _tor user manually.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In MacOS X new users can be added with the "Netinfo Manager", residing in /Applications/Utilities/. Here's how:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Open Netinfo Manager</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* click on the lock and enter your admin password</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* browse to the folder "users" and hit "New"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>*name the newly created folder "_tor"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>*select the folder and hit "New" to create the following key-value pairs: </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>passwd<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>*<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></SPAN></DIV><DIV>_writers_tim_passwd<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>_tor<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV>uid<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>100<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>(or any unused uid?)</DIV><DIV>home<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>/Library/Tor/var/lib/tor</DIV><DIV>shell<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>/dev/null</DIV><DIV>gid<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>1<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>(or any unused gid?)</DIV><DIV>realname<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Tor User</DIV><DIV>_writers_passwd<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>_tor</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Hit Apple+S to commit the changes</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At least my _tor user is set up that way. I hope I didn't get anything wrong and it helps to solve your problem</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Niels</DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>