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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-12-20 17:40:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-12-20 17:40:36 -0400 |
| commit | 5387e0e1aeee46b94ad6e0a1d59b1422a8048665 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b32d4f70d9ca5dfd511e08e89caf7a7dbee525f /doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn | |
| parent | e493cbaace4651d5e7da26834ab108cfae3df1dc (diff) | |
enable-tor: No longer needs to be run as root.
When run by not root, su's to root automatically.
This commit was sponsored by Brock Spratlen on Patreon.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn index 1c1738027..f06966400 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex-enable-tor.mdwn @@ -4,14 +4,18 @@ git-annex enable-tor - enable tor hidden service # SYNOPSIS +git annex enable-tor + sudo git annex enable-tor $(id -u) # DESCRIPTION This command enables a tor hidden service for git-annex. -It has to be run by root, since it modifies `/etc/tor/torrc`. -Pass it your user id number, as output by `id -u` +It modifies `/etc/tor/torrc` to register the hidden service. If run as a +normal user, it will try to use sudo/su/etc to get root access to modify +that file. If you run it as root, pass it your non-root user id number, +as output by `id -u` After this command is run, `git annex remotedaemon` can be run to serve the tor hidden service, and then `git-annex p2p --gen-address` can be run to |