[tor-relays] Obfsproxy OSX help

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 22 Sep 2015, at 12:00, Geoff Down <geoffdown at fastmail.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, at 01:40 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 19:59, Geoff Down <geoffdown at fastmail.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> is anyone willing to talk me through getting Obfsproxy working on
>>> OSX10.4? I've got as far as Step 3 on
>>> https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.html.en#instructions
>>> but can't find the Obfsproxy binary; and since I have no idea what 'pip'
>>> does, even though it reports the 'package' as installed, I am at a loss.
>> ...
> 
>> Have you tried looking in
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>> , or the $PYTHONPATH used by your package manager / python install?
> 
> I wouldn't have known about (and still don't) $PYTHONPATH - I don't use
> Python for anything else, it's just a black box to me.
> I did find obfsproxy at
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/obfsproxy
> eventually (I was expecting something larger than 401 bytes) and have
> made a symlink from /usr/bin/ to ease access.
> Now that I can run it, will it be ok running as the same user as my
> (unpriviliged) Tor process?

Yes, they will run as the same user.

> I assume the
> ServerTransportPlugin obfs3 exec /usr/local/bin/obfsproxy managed
> line in the torrc will result in obfsproxy running as a child process?

Yes, this is why they run as the same user.

Tim

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