[tor-relays] switching from root to unprivileged user

[Quintin]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:34 PM George <george at queair.net> wrote:

> TorGate:
> > is this a god ide tor running as root ?
>
> It doesn't run as root. root starts the daemon, then switches over to
> unprivileged/nologin _tor user.
>

Is this the case even if "ps -C tor u"  shows it runs as root?

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