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[tor-bugs] #2821 [Vidalia]: Give Vidalia a bootstrap option for torrc
#2821: Give Vidalia a bootstrap option for torrc
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Reporter: erinn | Owner: chiiph
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Vidalia | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Currently, unless a torrc is specified with the appropriate options,
Vidalia is unable to launch automatically as a bridge even if vidalia.conf
is configured appropriately.
This is a problem for creating bridge bundles on OS X because OS X looks
for the torrc in ~/Library/Vidalia, which is a directory the Vidalia
Bundle does not write to, since it's not an installer. Once launched,
Vidalia remains unchecked as a bridge, but if you check 'help censored
users reach the internet', all of the pre-filled bridge information is
there.
It is possible to specify a different DataDirectory for Vidalia in its
vidalia.conf, and one could theoretically point that to any location on
the filesystem with the path to the correct torrc, but then Tor will try
to write information there, which violates the OS X filesystem hierarchy.
(I think.)
One idea is to make it possible for Vidalia to read a torrc and then write
it to the correct directory, while preserving the old torrc the way it
currently does.
TomÃs's proposal is to create Bootstrap=true and
BootstrapFrom=/path/to/dir options for vidalia.conf which would allow us
to specify that Vidalia should be bootstrapped with a diff
erent torrc, and will prevent it from writing to system paths that it
should not write to.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2821>
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