Hi,

I need to run Tor Browser as another user…

So here what I’m doing under, MX Linux ( Debian, SysVinit, xfce)

#as root, in a terminal under xfce

useradd --create-home --system --shell /usr/sbin/nologin TorUser
# btw --system or not ?

tar -xf tor-browser-linux...tar -C /opt --totals
chown -R TorUser:TorUser /opt/tor-browser

runuser -u TorUser -- /opt/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop

return

Launching ‘./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach’…

But nothing happen, and I don’t see any process for TorUser

any ideas ?

Posted on the offical Tor-browser in June, but no reactions so far… :/

  • mina86deleted by creatorEnglish
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    5 months ago

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Allows multiple easy to remember users. You can have user, User, uSer, USeR, USER, uSER…

  • Elieas@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 months ago

    TorUser doesn’t have access to your current user’s display. You need to first give access using something like xauth or xhost.

      • mina86deleted by creatorEnglish
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        5 months ago

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        • Gordon_F@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          9 months ago

          Thank you @mina86@lemmy.wtf I’ve look where point the $XAUTHORITY but it point to another user /home/<aUser>/.Xauthority and to give access to the file I have to change also the permission on the parent folders… not to hot to do so…

          I see also the TorUser do not have a file .Xauthority ! I’ve look how generate one for it, but I found no good documentation ! They show how do it once logged with TorUser ! but mine is not meant to be used to login on the system…

          • mina86deleted by creatorEnglish
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            5 months ago

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          • Gordon_F@lemmy.mlOP
            1·
            9 months ago

            I’ve try one guidance, but it didn’t worked.

            I quit the xfce, login as root, did

            echo $XAUTHORITY
#returned nothing

XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority.tmp
xauth -f $XAUTHORITY generate :0 . trusted

            and after few minute it returned

            xauth: (argv):1 unable to open display :0 😢

            • kumi@feddit.onlineEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Do you get a different result if you replace that :0 with your actual DISPLAY value?

              Also make sure you run that in a context that does have access to the x server (i guess keep your display manager running as you do this).

              Depending on your setup you should be running such commands as normal user instead of root.

  • Gordon_F@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I create also a “regular user” TorUser2
    To see if it generate the same problems
    This user have the .Xauthority file.\

    # as root user
runuser -u TorUser2 -- /opt/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop

    return Launching ‘./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach…’
    and ps -u TorUser2 return nothing…

    I’ve tried also

    runuser -l TorUser2 -c '/opt/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop'

    /usr/bin/env: ‘./Browser/execdesktop’: No such file or directory

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    I don’t use .desktop files that much… But I guess xfce is X and not wayland. Check the DISPLAY env var for your user and set the same in your script there or run the binary with that env var.