Re: tor-arm warning
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:35:45AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 2/15/14, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> > Trying to set up a Tor relay node, and the tor package recommended
> > tor-arm, which I installed too.
> >
> > Running "arm" gives the following warning:
> > 17:27:19 [ARM_NOTICE] Arm is currently running with root permissions.
> > This is not a good idea, and will still work perfectly well if it's
> > run with the same user as Tor (ie, starting with
> > "sudo -u debian-tor arm").
> >
> > When I run the above suggested command (as root), I get the following:
> > sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/arm: Permission denied
>
> Found the solution at the bottom of this page:
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en
> 13. You might like to use the arm relay monitor to watch your relay's
> activities from the command line. First, "sudo apt-get install
> tor-arm". Second, as the user that will be running arm, run "sudo
> adduser $USER debian-tor" to add your user to the debian-tor group so
> it can reach Tor's controlsocket. Then log out and log back in (so
> your user is actually in the group), and run "arm".
That information should be in the README.Debian file. Is it not
mentioned?
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