[tor-talk] Vidalia Settings

antispam06 at sent.at antispam06 at sent.at
Sat Oct 6 18:39:05 UTC 2012


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012, at 14:46, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:21:39 +0000, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:
> ...
> > with Pidgin through Tor. In my proxy configuration for the account in
> > Pidgin I left the user and password empty. And it still worked. Am I
> > missing something? Shouldn't the authentication be set to Nothing in
> > order to make it work?
> 
> The authentication is for accessing the tor control socket,
> not the socks proxy. Basically, in this setting vidalia
> keeps everyone else from talking tor control.
> 
Thanks Andreas

But if it's in connection with the socket and TCP is selected, shouldn't
be everything grayed out? Is this a bug?


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