[Tor-BSD] openbsd 6.0: tor running as root user

Michael McConville mmcco at mykolab.com
Sun Nov 27 18:10:42 EST 2016


Ivan Markin wrote:
> failure:
> > I installed tor-0.2.7.6p1 with pkg_add and upgraded it later to
> > tor-0.2.7.6p2 via mtier repo. A _tor user and tor group got created
> > but the tor process runs as user root (as shown with "ps aux" and
> > also which tor complains about in the log file).
> 
> It seems to be an issue with MTier stuff or upgrade went wrong. Try to
> run OpenBSD's tor installed via pkg_add. I'm pretty sure that it runs
> under _tor user.

Ah, I missed the mtier part. I'd assume that's it. They'd likely want a
bug report, by the way.



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