[tor-relays] Relay down, "rejected", help

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:15:52PM -0800, I wrote:
> >>> 
> > Wow, I always thought that *was* the "safe" way to run arm.  I wonder
> > where we both got the advice to do it the dangerous way.
> 
> from ARM
>  [ARM_NOTICE] Arm is currently running with root permissions. This is not a good idea, and will still work perfectly well if it's run with the same user as
>    Tor (ie, starting with "sudo -u debian-tor arm").

Yep.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10702

Damian is planning to revise arm at some point, but at least this part
of it has been frozen without much development for a long time now.

If you want to help out, this might be a good opportunity. :)

--Roger