[tor-commits] r24524: {website} Warn users to not unpack or run TBB as root Everyone is *sup (website/trunk/projects/en)

Robert Ransom rransom.8774 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 02:55:52 UTC 2011


Author: rransom
Date: 2011-04-01 02:55:51 +0000 (Fri, 01 Apr 2011)
New Revision: 24524

Modified:
   website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml
Log:
Warn users to not unpack or run TBB as root

Everyone is *supposed to* know that running big messy programs as root is
a Bad Thing, but unpacking or running TBB as root currently makes it fail
to run entirely.  (See bug #2824.)

Modified: website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml	2011-04-01 02:23:15 UTC (rev 24523)
+++ website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml	2011-04-01 02:55:51 UTC (rev 24524)
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
     <var>LANG</var> is the language listed in the filename), and either double click on the
     directory or <code>cd</code> into it, then execute the <strong>start-tor-browser</strong>
     script. This will launch Vidalia and once that connects to Tor, it will launch
-    Firefox.</p>
+    Firefox. <em>Do not unpack or run TBB as root.</em></p>
     
     <a id="Windows"></a>
     <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Windows">Windows instructions</a></h3>



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