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Roger Dingledine commited on 2010-08-03 19:41:03
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<p>Running a Tor client:</p> |
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+<li><a href="#VidaliaPassword">Tor/Vidalia prompts for a password at start</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#ChooseEntryExit">Can I control which nodes (or country) are used for entry/exit?</a></li> |
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+<a id="VidaliaPassword"></a> |
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+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#VidaliaPassword">Tor/Vidalia prompts for |
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+a password at start</a></h3> |
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+<p> |
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+The Vidalia bundle tries to start Tor itself, while setting a random |
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+password for the control port of Tor. Vidalia is the GUI that you see in |
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+front of you with a network map, message log, and control panel amongst |
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+other things. This control port allows Vidalia to control Tor. The random |
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+password allows only your Vidalia to control your Tor. There are two |
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+common situations where Vidalia will prompt for a password: |
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+</p> |
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+<ul> |
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+<li>Vidalia crashes, but leaves Tor running. What happens here is that |
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+Tor continues running with the last known random password. You re-start |
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+Vidalia, which generates a new random password, but Vidalia can't talk |
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+to Tor, because the random passwords are different. One solution is to |
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+go into your process or task manager, and terminate the Tor process. You |
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+can then restart Vidalia again, and all will work.</li> |
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+<li>You set Tor to run as a service. When Tor is set to run as a service, |
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+it starts up when the system boots up. If you configured Tor to start as a |
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+service through Vidalia, a random password was set and saved in Tor. When |
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+you reboot, Tor starts up and uses the random password it saved. You |
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+login and start up Vidalia. Vidalia attempts to talk to the already |
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+running Tor. Vidalia generates a random password, but it is different |
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+than the saved password in the Tor service. You need to reconfigure Tor |
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+to not be a service. See Tor as a service for more info.</li> |
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+</ul> |
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+<hr /> |
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<a id="ChooseEntryExit"></a> |
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#ChooseEntryExit">Can I control which nodes (or country) are used for entry/exit?</a></h3> |
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