[tor-talk] Setting up Tor on Ubuntu

[Simon Brereton]

On 22 March 2012 00:51, Dererk <dererk at madap.com.ar> wrote:
> On 21/03/12 00:28, Simon Brereton wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Let me apologise at the outset for ignoring the TBB.  I plan on doing
>> so later, but as this is my first experiment with Tor, I would like to
>> try and educate myself and that means doing things the hard way.
>> Sadly, the hard way isn't working.
> [snip]
>> So, then I installed vidalia and privoxy.  Once I stopped tor (sudo
>> /etc/init.d/tor stop) and started vidalia, I get the control panel up.
>>
>> If I start tor from the control panel, I get..
>>
>> Vidalia detectd that the Tor software exited unexpectedly.
>>
>> The log file says:
>>
>> Mar 20 22:58:45.620 [Warning] /var/run/tor is not owned by this user
>> (spb, 1000) but by debian-tor (116). Perhaps you are running Tor as
>> the wrong user?
> You could implement any approach present at the package documentation.
>
> Quoting:
>
>     The 'But...'
>     =======
>
>     On the other hand, there could be a few situations in which you
>    wont be able
>      to use this configuration profile, some of them being:
>
>      - You couldn't convince an admin to add you into the list of local
>    system
>        users allowed to control Tor
>      - The Tor instance you're willing to control runs on a remote host
>      - Some old manuscripts have recently revealed vulnerabilities on the
>        unixsocket implementation, or simply you just don't wish to use
>    it because
>        you dislike the word 'unix' on 'unixsocket'.
>
>
>     In this cases, or whichever ones you may find, you can still make
>    use any of
>      the following alternatives:
>
>      1. If facing a local Tor daemon situation in which you are unable
>    to connect
>         for some reason to the system-wide Tor's Control Socket (as the
>    example
>         explained below), you can still launch a personal Tor session
>    and manually
>         configure Vidalia to use it.
>
>      2. Enable Tor's ControlPort and enable CookieAuthentication in
>    Tor's config,
>        then grab the cookie file from /var/lib/tor/control_auth_cookie,
>    profit!
>
>      3. Enable Tor's ControlPort, get a hashed password at 'tor
>    --hash-password',
>        load back the output into the HashedControlPassword Tor's config
>    field,
>        profit!
>
>
> Detailed explanation to be found on your system at:
> /usr/share/doc/vidalia/README.Debian.gz


Doh!  I thought this had been done as part of the set-up (I thought I
had seen this done). I'll do that.

Cheers

Simon