Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 20…

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CC: mcs, Mike Perry, brade
Temat: Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]
intrigeri:
> The thing is, it seems to me that Tails cannot really use Tor
> Launcher in its current state, for a few reasons:
>
> * we want to stop starting a web browser by default; * we would
> rather *not* give the desktop user, that runs the web browser, full
> rights on configuring Tor; we just stopped doing this, actually.


Maybe I have found another point to add up to that list.

See the default comment in a torrc created by Tor Launcher. Copied in
here for your convenience.

"# This file was generated by Tor; if you edit it, comments will not
be preserved
# The old torrc file was renamed to torrc.orig.1 or similar, and Tor
will ignore it"

Tails could maybe put its own Tor config to
/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc.

What about user customizations in torrc? Where never supported in
Tails? Would be no longer supported? Persistence of torrc?

Related to:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1922