[tor-relays] spurios warning about using the nickname instead of the key

Scott Bennett bennett at sdf.org
Thu Oct 12 18:43:00 UTC 2017


teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 12 Oct 2017, at 13:21, Toralf F?rster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA256
> > 
> >> On 10/11/2017 10:08 AM, Dylan Issa wrote:
> >> Did you set MyFamily using nicknames of the key? 
> >> Because if nickname, change it to key is basically what it?s saying.
> > 
> > 
> > No,
> > 
> > both Tor processes share this common config file:
> > 
> > grep -i famil /etc/tor/torrc*/*
> > 
> > /etc/tor/torrc.d/00_common:MyFamily 1AF72E8906E6C49481A791A6F8F84F8DFEBBB2BA,6EABEBF38CE7E3DF672C4DB01383606FE3EB2215

     Doessn't each fingerprint need to start with a $ character?  Otherwise
it's just a really long nickname, right?


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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