Re: Tor router

["Anthony G. Basile" <basile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11/11/2010 02:20 PM, James Brown wrote:
> I have an Asus WL-500gPv2 under dd-wrt and I want to start tor on it.
> I install tor, privoxy etc. and start it.
> After it I have the next notification: "Nov 11 22:14:06.954 [warn] You
> are running Tor as root. You don't need to, and you probably shouldn't"
> But I have only root user under dd-wrt. It is possible to add in the
> system anpther users using "adduser" utility from optware but it
> disappears after rebooting router.
> What is the better - use the tor under root user or make any script
> adding user and groop for tor after each rebooting my router?
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If you run tor as root, you run the risk that if there is some
exploitable in tor, your router can be compromise.

I'm curious why you don't run out of ram?  I tried this long ago on a
Linksys wrt54g with a wopping 16M, and tor "worked" but lasted about 10
mins before OOM-ing.  Understandable sine the router does much of its
runtime filesystem in RAM.

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
(716) 829-8197
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