[tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

[Andy Isaacson]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Damian Johnson wrote:
>> activities from the command line. First, "sudo apt install nyx".
>> Second, as the user that will be running nyx, run "sudo adduser $USER
>> debian-tor" to add your user to the debian-tor group so it can reach
>> Tor's controlsocket. Then log out and log back in (so your user is
>> actually in the group), and run "nyx".
>> """
>
>Thanks Roger. Dumbish question but if we replace 'Then log out and log
>back in' with 'run "reset" in your console' will that do the trick?

No, reset(1) just affects terminal (tty) settings, it does not affect 
the active group list for the current login session.  There isn't a 
better solution than logging out and logging back in.

Worse solutions that nobody should recommend as a replacement:

 - newgrp doesn't run the shell setup reliably in all cases.
 - sudo to yourself to run nyx only works with certain sudoers configs
 - sudo to root to run nyx results in running nyx as root, which you
   shouldn't.
 - ssh $USER at localhost leaves the terminal session in a confusing state
   that most non-expert users won't be prepared to understand properly

-andy