commit 5860f0a7c8ec6aa9eb542a86b828f69e20251c98 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Fri May 26 15:45:39 2017 -0400

Update the torify.1 manpage

I went into this to fix 6892 and say "we don't do anything for circuit isolation." But instead I did a fair amount of text-removal to stop implying that torify does anything more than call torsocks. --- changes/torify-manpage | 3 +++ doc/torify.1.txt | 22 +++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changes/torify-manpage b/changes/torify-manpage new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8bf56c --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/torify-manpage @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ + o Documentation: + - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes + ticket 6892. diff --git a/doc/torify.1.txt b/doc/torify.1.txt index 8dca901..614e3f6 100644 --- a/doc/torify.1.txt +++ b/doc/torify.1.txt @@ -17,25 +17,25 @@ SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION ----------- -**torify** is a simple wrapper that attempts to find the best underlying Tor -wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks with a tor specific -configuration file. + +**torify** is a simple wrapper that +calls torsocks with a tor-specific +configuration file.

-torsocks is an improved wrapper that explicitly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS -lookups and properly socksifies your TCP connections. + - -Please note that since both method use LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied to -suid binaries. +It is provided for backward compatibility; probably instead you should +just use torsocks.

WARNING ------- -When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data. + +When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data. + +torify can leak ICMP data.

-Both will leak ICMP data. +torify will not ensure that different requests are processed on +different circuits.

SEE ALSO -------- -**tor**(1), **tor-resolve**(1), **torsocks**(1) +**tor**(1), **torsocks**(1)

AUTHORS -------