root needed to run the demos about haskell-ricochet HOT 5 CLOSED

The pull request I created over at network-anonymous-tor enables us to use NULL instead of COOKIE authentication, which doesn’t require root rights. The problem is, I didn’t investigate yet whether that’s considered good practise, the COOKIE authentication will probably exist for a good reason.

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You'd need to change your tor directory to ~/.tor or similar or run tor as tor user.

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Even if Tor is run as user tor, if he doesn’t run the demos as user tor, the demos won’t be able to access the cookie file. Changing the Tor directory to ~/.tor doesn’t change the access rights, so that won’t help either. Switching the user to run the demos as user tor will require root permissions too.

The only three options I see:

• Add the user’s user to the tor group (Requires root permissions once)
• Run the tor daemon as the user’s user (The C++ implementation does this)
• Using NULL authentication

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You can run tor as user that was what I meant.

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There are a lot more viable methods to authenticate, like ,he HashedPassword one - also just run tor as a user.

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