The far easier method is to add a "User <tor user>" entry to your torrc then start Tor as root. This way tor will bind to the privileged ports then lower its permissions to the given user (I've been meaning to update that faq entry...).
Also, I wrote a relay setup wizard that makes you a nice relay configuration (including using 443/80) automagically. To give it a try just... - dowload http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm-1.4.3rc.tar.bz2 - extract and run 'arm' - it should pop up a wizard that looks like... - http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard1.png - http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard2.png - http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard3.png
Arm is about to have a release in the next few days so I'd love feedback on the wizard if you have any. Cheers! -Damian
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Softail black98fxstc@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to switch my ports from 9001/9030 to 443/80. The tor configuration seems straight forward. I tried
/sbin/iptables --append INPUT --protocol tcp --match state --state NEW --destination a.b.c.d --dport 9001 --jump ACCEPT /sbin/iptables --append INPUT --protocol tcp --match state --state NEW --destination a.b.c.d --dport 9030 --jump ACCEPT /sbin/iptables --table nat --append PREROUTING --protocol tcp --source-port 443 --destination a.b.c.d --jump DNAT --to-destination :9001 /sbin/iptables --table nat --append PREROUTING --protocol tcp --source-port 80 --destination a.b.c.d --jump DNAT --to-destination :9030
but that doesn't seem to work. The OR and Dir ports are not reachable from the outside. I assumed that PREROUTING happened before INPUT but not really an expert on this. The firewall blocks everything else inbound to that address but the two ports I opened. Do I need to open 443/80 on the INPUT chain as well and if so do I also need to keep 9001/9030 open also?
CentOS 5.6 if that matters.
Thanks
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