[tor-talk] Vidalia Settings

[Andreas Krey]

On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:21:39 +0000, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:
...
> with Pidgin through Tor. In my proxy configuration for the account in
> Pidgin I left the user and password empty. And it still worked. Am I
> missing something? Shouldn't the authentication be set to Nothing in
> order to make it work?

The authentication is for accessing the tor control socket,
not the socks proxy. Basically, in this setting vidalia
keeps everyone else from talking tor control.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800