2 'tor' is an implementation of The Onion Routing system, as
3 described in a bit more detail at http://www.onion-router.net/. You
4 can read list archives, and subscribe to the mailing list, at
5 http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/.
7 Is your question in the FAQ? Should it be?
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10 See the INSTALL file for a quickstart. That is all you will probably need.
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14 You only need to look beyond this point if the quickstart in the INSTALL
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18 Do you want to run a tor server?
20 We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections,
21 that have at least 1Mbit each way. Currently we don't use all of that,
22 but we want it available for burst traffic.
24 (The Tor server doesn't need to be run as root, and doesn't need any
25 special system permissions or kernel mods. You should probably run it
26 as its own user though, especially if you run an identd service too.)
28 First, copy torrc.sample to torrc (by default it's in
29 /usr/local/etc/tor/), and edit the middle part. Create the
30 DataDirectory, and make sure it's owned by the uid/gid that will be
31 running tor. Fix your system clock so it's not too far off. Make sure
32 name resolution works.
34 Then run tor to generate keys. One of the files generated
35 in your DataDirectory is your 'fingerprint' file. Mail it to
36 tor-ops@freehaven.net.
38 Please also tell us in that mail who you are, so we know whom to contact
39 if there's any problem. Also describe what kind of connectivity the new
40 server will have. If possible PGP sign your mail.
42 You may find the initscript in contrib/tor.sh useful if you
43 want to set up Tor to start at boot.
45 Do you want to run a hidden service?
47 Copy torrc.sample to torrc (by default it's in /usr/local/etc/tor/), and
48 edit the bottom part. Then run Tor. It will create each HiddenServiceDir
49 you have configured, and it will create a 'hostname' file which
50 specifies the url (xyz.onion) for that service. You can tell people
51 the url, and they can connect to it via their Tor client.
55 If you want to use Tor for protocols that can't use Privoxy, or
56 with applications that are not socksified, then download tsocks
57 (tsocks.sourceforge.net) and configure it to talk to localhost:9050
58 as a socks4 server. My /etc/tsocks.conf simply has:
61 (I had to "cd /usr/lib; ln -s /lib/libtsocks.so" to get the tsocks
62 library working after install, since my libpath didn't include /lib.)
63 Then you can do "tsocks ssh arma@moria.mit.edu". But note that if
64 ssh is suid root, you either need to do this as root, or cp a local
65 version of ssh that isn't suid.
67 (On Windows, you may want to look at the Hummingbird SOCKS client,
68 or at SocksCap, instead.)