[tor-talk] Tor in the command line Linux

Pickfire pickfire at riseup.net
Sun Nov 1 01:57:49 UTC 2015


On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 08:18:16PM -0500, Justin Davis wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm trying to control Tor from the command line in Tails.  I want Tor
>to use bridges with obfs4.  I can't figure out the commands to type in
>to have Tor use addresses I specify.  Any help is apreciated.
>By the way the reason I don't just do it graphically is because I am
>visually impaired so I figured the screen reader will read the command
>line to me because the graphical way is inaccessable with Orca.
>Thanks,
>Justin.

Tor doesn't have a lot of commands, most of the time you don't even need
to edit the configurations. Take a look at `man tor` on how to configure
Tor. Look at /etc/tor/torrc and you will see now nice the configurations
are commented out.

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