[tor-bugs] #2408 [Tor Relay]: "PublishServerDescriptor hidserv" publishes a public relay descriptor

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#2408: "PublishServerDescriptor hidserv" publishes a public relay descriptor
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  Reporter:  rransom    |              Owner:  rransom           
      Type:  defect     |             Status:  needs_review      
  Priority:  major      |          Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.1.x-final
 Component:  Tor Relay  |            Version:                    
  Keywords:             |             Parent:                    
    Points:             |   Actualpointsdone:                    
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Changes (by rransom):

  * status:  assigned => needs_review


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 rransom]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 arma]:

 > > I'm tempted to fail the Tor, rather than just warn, so the user will
 notice and fix it.
 >
 > That seems reasonable, especially because if that change would halt your
 Tor process, this bug has already shot you in the foot, and you probably
 need to re-key and change your port and/or IP to keep your bridge
 unpublished.

 I decided not to do this, because there are enough other configuration
 warnings that users really need to see those log messages, and because
 making Tor fail to start won't actually help get a message to the user.

 > I'm changing this ticket back to `assigned`, because this change will
 need to be forward-ported from maint-0.2.1 more carefully than usual (at
 the very least, I should forward-port the man page change, but I also want
 to check for other occurrences of !PublishServerDescriptor in maint-0.2.2
 and master just in case).

 See
 [http://repo.or.cz/w/tor/rransom.git/shortlog/refs/heads/bug2408-v2-021
 bug2408-v2-021] for the 0.2.1 changes, and see
 [http://repo.or.cz/w/tor/rransom.git/shortlog/refs/heads/bug2408-v2-022
 bug2408-v2-022] for the changes for 0.2.2 and master.

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