Mac / Intel / Tiger / Only Tor & Privoxy / Tor can't start / no user _tor

[Niels Grewe]

On 09.08.2006 at 23:59 News Assi wrote:

> 	Hi,
>
> I've installed your "only tor & provoxy" package, but it seems so,  
> that
> no user will be created by this package, how can I fix that?

Hello,

I'm quite confident that the package was supposed to create a user  
for tor to run under. As a quick fix, here are some pointers for  
creating a _tor user manually.

In MacOS X new users can be added with the "Netinfo Manager",  
residing in /Applications/Utilities/. Here's how:

* Open Netinfo Manager

* click on the lock and enter your admin password

* browse to the folder "users" and hit "New"

*name the newly created folder "_tor"

*select the folder and hit "New" to create the following key-value  
pairs:

passwd				*
_writers_tim_passwd	_tor	
uid					100			(or any unused uid?)
home				/Library/Tor/var/lib/tor
shell				/dev/null
gid					1			(or any unused gid?)
realname			Tor User
_writers_passwd		_tor

* Hit Apple+S to commit the changes

At least my _tor user is set up that way. I hope I didn't get  
anything wrong and it helps to solve your problem

Cheers,


Niels



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/attachments/20060810/b0fab579/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 304 bytes
Desc: Signierter Teil der Nachricht
URL: <http://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/attachments/20060810/b0fab579/attachment.pgp>