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List:       fink-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fink-devel] 'tor' packages
From:       Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans () at ! or ! at>
Date:       2013-09-20 16:14:31
Message-ID: DC127A54-10E4-42F1-A5C1-D2CFF333EF90 () at ! or ! at
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On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:

> On 9/1/2013 4:37 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 
> > I pushed updates for the Tor packages in fink in 10.5 and 10.6. I'm going to add \
> > it to 10.7 also.  I emailed Jack Fink, the listed maintainer, back in May but \
> > didn't get any response, so I thought it would be OK to go ahead and do it.
> 
> I saw you asking on #fink asking about making a 'tor' user.  Adding a new passwd-* \
> user should be easy, though this would be the first stand alone user that is not \
> part of the passwd-core set of files.  I had previously tested making a new user \
> (for quagga) and have a .info candidate, but never got around to committing it [1]. \
> Feel free to take that and use it as a template for your tor user.  It should only \
> need string replacements for what 'tor' needs.  Please test carefully since I \
> haven't touched it in 8 months, but it /should/ work.  If it does, check again \
> before committing in case something policy related comes up. 
> Hanspeter
> 
> [1] <http://cvs.snaggledworks.com/viewvc.cgi/fink/3rdparty/main/finkinfo/base/passwd-quagga.info?view=log>
> 

I think for now, I got it working using 'nobody' as the user, so I'll leave it like \
that.  The main reason for having its own user is for use in firewall rules, but \
that's an advanced case, so chances are that user could switch the user manually.

.hc
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