[tor-relays] Who am I?

[William Kane]

It's not a common problem of Tor, it's a linux security feature.. RTFM.

2020-09-21 5:35 GMT, dmz21 <dmz21 at protonmail.ch>:
> 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.
>
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