[tor-talk] Does Tor support ControlSocket?

[me at beroal.in.ua]

On 15.02.16 14:07, nusenu wrote:
> me at beroal.in.ua:
>> Hi. Some old discussions on "stem" and "vidalia" suggest that Tor may be
>> controlled via a Unix domain socket. This seems like a good way to
>> control Tor on Unix; I just need to add a user who will control Tor to
>> the "tor" group. But I can't find anything like a documentation.
> Did you look in to tor's man page?
>
> the relevant torrc option is called:
> ControlSocket ;)
{{{
Permissions on directory /var/run/tor are too permissive.
Before Tor can create a control socket in "/var/run/tor/control", the 
directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to be accessible only by 
the user account that is running Tor.
}}}
Why are not permissions 0770 allowed?