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| author | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2019-09-13 10:43:26 +0800 |
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| committer | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2019-09-13 11:27:51 +0800 |
| commit | a199f75225897d3f10c9ef71fd8117664dc32a60 (patch) | |
| tree | 272e666c410cac567cb0a4189df266c891332ffa /doc | |
| parent | 884f7cc81b478b599ed8d43ebe80578ea9cdb279 (diff) | |
| parent | 706340150f3ae26fce4659f8fa0a5d57149d2fb3 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-a199f75225897d3f10c9ef71fd8117664dc32a60.tar.xz | |
Merge #16857: doc: Elaborate need to re-login on Debian-based after usermod for Tor group
706340150f3ae26fce4659f8fa0a5d57149d2fb3 Elaborate on the need to re-login on Debian-based systems to use tor following usermod (clashicly)
Pull request description:
Starting bitcoind with `-onlynet=onion` immediately after adding bitcoind user to debian-tor group will yield the following notice on debug.log:
"tor: Authentication cookie /run/tor/control.authcookie could not be opened (check permissions)"
Elaborate on the need to re-login to ensure debian-tor group has been applied to bitcoind user after:
sudo usermod -a -G debian-tor username
Verification can be done via `groups` command in shell.
Otherwise operator may not be aware at first launch they are not running a tor enabled node.
ACKs for top commit:
fanquake:
ACK 706340150f3ae26fce4659f8fa0a5d57149d2fb3 - Thanks for following up.
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Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tor.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.md b/doc/tor.md index cfb7f16666..2c54e32f84 100644 --- a/doc/tor.md +++ b/doc/tor.md @@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ preconfigured and the creation of a hidden service is automatic. If permission p are seen with `-debug=tor` they can be resolved by adding both the user running Tor and the user running bitcoind to the same group and setting permissions appropriately. On Debian-based systems the user running bitcoind can be added to the debian-tor group, -which has the appropriate permissions. +which has the appropriate permissions. Before starting bitcoind you will need to re-login +to allow debian-tor group to be applied. Otherwise you will see the following notice: "tor: +Authentication cookie /run/tor/control.authcookie could not be opened (check permissions)" +on debug.log. An alternative authentication method is the use of the `-torpassword=password` option. The `password` is the clear text form that |