[tor-relays] Questions regarding arm on Debian

[Louie Cardone-Noott]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, at 07:16 PM, diffusae wrote:
> Yes, you are right. But CookieAuthentication should work. You cannot
> query all of the connections without access to /var/lib/tor. You only
> will see circuits. I suggest to use "sudo -u debian-tor arm", if you
> like to use all of the arm pages. Otherwise you have to change the
> permissions. In my case, there is also the setgid flags on the
> directories (2700 drwx--S---).

Sorry not fully read the correspondence here but perhaps a tidier option
might be the one recommended on the tor website[1] of doing

sudo adduser $USER debian-tor

The alternative of running as the debian-tor user is a 'bad idea', see
[2] from last July

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en#after
[2]
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-July/009608.html