<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:30 PM, <<a href="mailto:phobos@rootme.org">phobos@rootme.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:30:30PM -0400, <a href="mailto:7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com">7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com</a> wrote 0.9K bytes in 29 lines about:<br>
: 'til you get a better reply, my newbie guess is that this sounds like a<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">: vidalia connection response. i.e. the hashed password in vidalia doesn't<br>
: match the hashed pw in torrc.<br>
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</div>THis is correct. Vidalia, by default, sets a random password for Tor<br>
controlport authentication when it starts up Tor. You can set this<br>
password to be static through vidalia in the "Settings | Advanced"<br>
button.<br>
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Andrew<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>So is Vidalia setting the password to <random> every time it starts, or just the first time it starts?<br><br>If every time, then why would it prompt the user for the password when it already knows it?<br>
<br>If first time, then why doesn't it read the password from the torrc or vidalia.conf file and use that?<br> <br>I remember having a discussion with Roger about this and, if I recall correctly, he wanted it to be able to handle authentication to the controlport without user interaction. Less pop ups == better user experience was the argument. <br>
<br>Just curious.<br><br>Thank you,<br>-- Kyle<br>