[tor-bugs] #2308 [Vidalia]: Cannot use the vidalia tools if started the tor as service at boot

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#2308: Cannot use the vidalia tools if started the tor as service at boot
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  Reporter:  ladetor      |       Owner:  chiiph        
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:                
 Component:  Vidalia      |     Version:  Vidalia 0.2.10
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                
    Parent:               |  
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Comment(by arma):

 Sounds like we should write this out as a faq entry, since it's non-
 obvious what to do when you're a unix tor user and want to add Vidalia to
 the mix.

 (In short, you've got two choices. You can either disable Tor's start-at-
 boot, and let Vidalia launch Tor for you; or you can configure your Tor
 with a controlport and a HashedControlPassword, and then configure your
 Vidalia to know that password. There's a third choice, which involves
 using cookie authentication rather than password authentication, but
 that's probably best left to package maintainers rather than ordinary
 users, since I'd worry that it's too easy to screw up the file
 permissions.)

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