[tor-relays] Running tor-arm under restricted user [WAS: Relay down, "rejected", help]
Michael Wolf
mikewolf at riseup.net
Sun Apr 20 06:59:29 UTC 2014
On 4/19/2014 4:50 PM, Michael Wolf wrote:
> It's worth noting that, under Debian (Jessie, others?), arm will be
> unable to read tor's logs if you run it as your user. The default group
> for /var/log/tor is 'adm'. You'll have to:
>
> $ sudo chgrp -R debian-tor /var/log/tor
>
> This will make the logs readable to you (and arm), but unreadable to any
> system monitoring tools that use the adm group.
Apparently arm is also unable to read the bandwidth history, as
/var/lib/tor has the setgid bit set, but not group read or execute. Is
there any reason for setgid to be set on this directory? This is not
something I would have done.
-- Mike
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