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CoolDude100 10-15-2014 07:07 AM

Need an alternative to Tor
 
I just want to use an encryption browser program like Tor except apparently Tor can't be run as root/superuser and I need to always use superuser for my firewall. Is there anything else I can use or maybe can Tor be used as superuser? I use Debian.

af7567 10-15-2014 07:30 AM

Take a look at this: http://www.canbike.org/information-t...n-as-root.html

The "Tor Browser Should Not be Run as Root" tells you which file to edit to allow you to run tor browser as root, but that was a few months ago so could be outdated now.

edit: You may also need to change the owner of the data directory to root too, but that is also explained on this site

John VV 10-15-2014 02:43 PM

and you should NEVER NEVER NEVER !!! any browser as root
and "tor" should NEVER NEVER NEVER !!! be ran as root

unSpawn 10-15-2014 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoolDude100 (Post 5254090)
I need to always use superuser for my firewall.

Why? Undo that.


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