[tor-talk] Debian-tor 0.2.2.34-1~~squeeze+1 PID/UID bug

Sat Oct 29 06:50:26 UTC 2011

On 28.10.2011 19:48, unknown wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:52:12 +0000
> unknown <unknown at pgpru.com> wrote:
> 
>  
>> Sorry for the misinformation. ps aux always displays numerical ID's for long usernames. 
>> I trying to repeat this situation on another Debian Linux machine with similar versions updates and 
>> iptables settings and got no results. Everything works fine without any troubles.
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> I think I found the reason of the problem. /etc/tor/torrc permisson changed to 640 root:root and 
> after 'killall -SIGHUP tor' Tor cannot read the config. Log message is:
> 
> ===
> [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and resetting internal
> state.
> [warn] Could not open "/etc/tor/torrc": Permission denied
> [notice] Configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc" not present, using reasonable defaults.
> ===
> 
> "Reasonable defaults" not include options for transparent torification.
> 
> I found that previous version use 644 root:root permission. 
> I not use any secret parameters in config and change the permission to old value and everything
> work's fine again with -SIGHUP
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It is interesting for me what is "quite right" permissions to torrc?