Re: connect Vidalia to a running tor instance

[Sebastian Hahn <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 12, 2010, at 3:49 PM, tor_ml wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is it possible to connect/"attach" Vidalia to a tor process that  
> gets started by an init script and is running as user A, while  
> Vidalia is running as user B?

Yes. You need to configure your Tor to open a ControlPort and set
a password, then feed that password to Vidalia. See the manual
for how to configure your Tor and how to generate the password
hash.

Sebastian

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