[tor-relays] Who am I?

[dmz21]

On Monday, September 21, 2020 5:58 AM, <Kencf0618 at riseup.net> wrote:

> Whatever the torrc, with "Tor" I get
>
> Sep 18 08:02:12.538 [notice] Tor 0.3.2.10 (git-0edaa32732ec8930) running
> on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma
> 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
> Sep 18 08:02:12.538 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
> Learn how to be safe at
> https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
> Sep 18 08:02:12.538 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
> Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [notice] Based on detected system memory,
> MaxMemInQueues is set to 8192 MB. You can override this by setting
> MaxMemInQueues by hand.
> Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled.
> Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443
> Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission
> denied
> Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to
> bind one of the listener ports.
> Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
>
> whereas with "sudo Tor" (yeah, yeah, I know, I know -"bad form") I get
>
> ep 18 08:04:12.236 [notice] Tor 0.3.2.10 (git-0edaa32732ec8930) running
> on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma
> 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
> Sep 18 08:04:12.236 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
> Learn how to be safe at
> https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
> Sep 18 08:04:12.237 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
> Sep 18 08:04:12.240 [notice] Based on detected system memory,
> MaxMemInQueues is set to 8192 MB. You can override this by setting
> MaxMemInQueues by hand.
> Sep 18 08:04:12.240 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled.
> Sep 18 08:04:12.240 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443
> Sep 18 08:04:12.241 [warn] /home/kenneth/.tor is not owned by this user
> (root, 0) but by kenneth (1000). Perhaps you are running Tor as the
> wrong user?
> Sep 18 08:04:12.241 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't
> access/create private data directory "/home/kenneth/.tor"
> Sep 18 08:04:12.241 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
>
> What is happening?

Please check if it works when you select a ORPort above 1023.
It is a common problem with Tor on Linux: it cannot open ports below 1024 when running as a non-root service.