[tor-relays] switching from root to unprivileged user

Quintin tor-admin at portaltodark.world
Thu Feb 15 08:19:29 UTC 2018


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:48 PM Zack Weinberg <zackw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> No, 'ps' should show the unprivileged user. Check whether you have a
> "User" setting in your torrc.  (I think George was referring
> specifically to the way FreeBSD pkgsrc configures tor.)


Adding a User setting and updating some permissions worked to get tor
running as an unprivileged user.
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