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

Ivan Markin twim at riseup.net
Sun Nov 27 18:06:00 EST 2016


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.

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Ivan Markin



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