libtorsocks(): Need a password in torsocks.conf or $TORSOCKS_PASSWORD to authenticate with ... : Connection refused To use default torsocks 1.3 you'll need to set socksport noisolatesocksauth or prefersocksnoauth or perhaps configure a user:pass in torsocks beyond the unset default, as hinted above. Not sure if the latter socksport option will prevent isolation or block torsocks again when later setting a user:pass in torsocks. I think there may be a case for adding an environment/conf TORSOCKS_RNDAUTH=[0/1] to torsocks such that it will generate a random user:pass per invocation (ie: parallel) thereby isolating each one. While other unset invocations would ride as default over whichever circuits.