Autor: intrigeri Data: A: The Tails public development discussion list Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher as a standalone XUL app in Tails [Was:
Tor Launcher extension]
anonym wrote (18 Feb 2014 01:07:07 GMT) : > Something we Tails developers may want consider is to make torrc
> writeable by the `debian-tor` user; if we do, then `SAVECONF` will work
> and we can use Tor Launcher as is (w.r.t. configuration persistence).
> Without putting too much thought into this I'm not even sure if that
> would make anything worse than the current situation. After all, if the
> `debian-tor` user is compromised, it can reconfigure Tor in whatever way
> it want via the control port (or socket) instead of torrc. A simple
> script could be left running that would compromise new Tor processes in
> case it's restarted, so there's not even that benefit with this separation.
Agreed, this doesn't sound crazy.
> [Sorry, what do you means with "PTs"?]
