[tor-relays] toranon (977)?!?

Sean Greenslade sean at seangreenslade.com
Wed Dec 25 23:36:37 UTC 2019


On December 24, 2019 10:31:43 PM EST, Kenneth Freeman <Kencf0618 at riseup.net> wrote:
>Messing around with my new computer I get this:
>
>[warn]  /run/tor is not owned by this user, but by toranon (977).
>Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
>
>Duckduckgo displays hentai results. Go figure.

Sounds to me like a distro package that's using a dedicated "nobody" account for running the tor service. What OS / version, and where did you get your tor package from?

--Sean


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