[tor-talk] TBB as user debian-tor

[unknown]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:20:08 +0000
unknown <unknown at pgpru.com> wrote:

 
> Debian/Linux/(other Unix-like) has two choices now:
> 
> 1. Officialy recommended: use TBB as is, starting from start-tor-browser.sh,
> with Vidallia and "local-tor with-users-rights" -- from your own username.
> 
> 2. Risky and complex if configured mistakenly: also use start-tor-browser.sh
> but just to start TBB-FF (avoiding new restrictive measures), then kill -9
> Vidallia and local Tor and use firewall to send your traffic to system-tor.
> 
> 2-nd point is actual if you use different tor profiles, transparently anonimyzing
> (with iptables + system tor), anonymizing routers, virtual machines, parallel running
> separated X-sessions, global SELinux policies, etc.
> 
> I trying discuss it before: 
> 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-October/021739.html

I found open ticket relevant to the problem: 

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2308

Now it's time to test it broadly to find a solution before closing it
 or make alternatives without running vidalia.