On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, at 07:16 PM, diffusae wrote:
Yes, you are right. But CookieAuthentication should work. You cannot query all of the connections without access to /var/lib/tor. You only will see circuits. I suggest to use "sudo -u debian-tor arm", if you like to use all of the arm pages. Otherwise you have to change the permissions. In my case, there is also the setgid flags on the directories (2700 drwx--S---).
Sorry not fully read the correspondence here but perhaps a tidier option might be the one recommended on the tor website[1] of doing
sudo adduser $USER debian-tor
The alternative of running as the debian-tor user is a 'bad idea', see [2] from last July
[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en#after [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-July/009608.html