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/.
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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 First, copy torrc.sample to torrc (by default it's in
21 /usr/local/etc/tor/), and edit the middle part. Create the
22 DataDirectory, and make sure it's owned by whoever will be running
23 tor. Fix your system clock so it's not too far off. Make sure name
26 Then run tor to generate keys. One of the files generated
27 in your DataDirectory is your 'fingerprint' file. Mail it to
30 NOTE: You won't be able to use tor as a client or server
31 in this configuration until you've been added to the directory
32 and can authenticate to the other nodes.
34 Do you want to run a hidden service?
36 Copy torrc.sample to torrc (by default it's in /usr/local/etc/tor/), and
37 edit the bottom part. Then run Tor. It will create each HiddenServiceDir
38 you have configured, and it will create a 'hostname' file which
39 specifies the url (xyz.onion) for that service. You can tell people
40 the url, and they can connect to it via their Tor proxy.
44 If you want to use Tor for protocols that can't use Privoxy, or
45 with applications that are not socksified, then download tsocks
46 (tsocks.sourceforge.net) and configure it to talk to localhost:9050
47 as a socks4 server. My /etc/tsocks.conf simply has:
50 (I had to "cd /usr/lib; ln -s /lib/libtsocks.so" to get the tsocks
51 library working after install, since my libpath didn't include /lib.)
52 Then you can do "tsocks ssh arma@moria.mit.edu". But note that if
53 ssh is suid root, you either need to do this as root, or cp a local
54 version of ssh that isn't suid.