[tor-bugs] #4586 [Tor Cloud]: Include Arm in Tor Cloud image

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#4586: Include Arm in Tor Cloud image
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 Reporter:  james21      |          Owner:  runa
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:      
Component:  Tor Cloud    |        Version:      
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Comment(by runa):

 Replying to [comment:4 atagar]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 runa]:
 > > I remember having some problems running it as non-root
 >
 > There's a few things that commonly run into permission gotchas...
 > - reading the authentication cookie requires membership in tor's group
 > - getting connection data (for instance, from proc or netstat) often
 requires that you're running as the tor user
 > - writing to the torrc requires that you... well, have write permissions
 to the torrc
 >
 > To deal with these I run arm as the tor user, and for the last I simply
 avoid using the torrc supplied with the deb.

 Ok. So we can include arm in the new images and update the FAQ with a "How
 do I run arm?"-section.

 > This said, arm can monitor and configure the tor process just fine - it
 just can't save those configuration changes. Also, Jake spent quite a
 while coming up with a setuid workaround which is available with arm's
 most recent version, though not enabled by default.

 Does arm display bridge statistics, such as client numbers? If so, this
 can be the new #4228.

 > I wouldn't recommend using the Ubuntu archives unless you can't avoid
 it. Ubuntu's policy leads to a lot of stale software and arm is no
 exception - the copy in the Lucid repo is 1.4.0 which is around a year out
 of date.

 We can pull it from deb.tpo, that's not a problem.

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