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Hello everyone,
my problem is:I have just installed a Peppermint distribution(the last one)on my laptop, and I have copied from an usb key all the Tor folder and .tar file, a thing that I have already done on another computer and it worked(in the sense that Tor starts without any problem), but it does not work now.If I try to run Tor - from the shell -I always get that the permission is denied. I tried with sudo bash with no result. I cannot use the su command because it needs another password that I have not because during the installation it was not requested(only a password to log in that is the same for a root user on the shell).
Any idea on how can I get out of this annoying issue?
Regards, foyle
Thank you my dear, you are really friendly. Now that I have my problem solved, I have one last question: Tor cannot it be run as root? Or there is a way to do it?
Thak you again
I do no want to do that just for the sake of it, but to increase my knowledge of Linux stuff: when I was putting in the shell the command that you advised me to do I had the root privileges, and it popped up a message stating that Tor should not be run as root, and it was that warning that triggered my curiosity. Theoretically not, but actually yes, is that right?
the story is the following:
many people use root account out of laziness, and this is definitely bad practice (and insecure). Some other peoples started to add user check to their software to avoid that situation.
So it's not really needed and tor probably runs perfectly as root, but the risk of a "strange" happening is relatively high, therefore it is explicitly blocked.
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