jha...@yandex.com: > I want to understand the best torification tool to use, but it's really hard > to learn about what each tool is and how it is different and who is > responsible for which tool. Various places on torproject.org site talk about > torify, usewithtor, torsocks, etc.
Please consider updating those pages (wiki can be edited by everyone) and submitting trac tickets against the website to fix the mess. > First, this page says torsocks is installed when tor is installed but this is > NOT true, at least not from the yum repository that is run by torproject.org: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/SupportPrograms > The only thing I get is torify. Without tsocks or torsocks, torify doesn't > even make sense! Torify and tsocks are outdated. Don't bother with it. > So I wind up on google code trying to understand about torsocks. > > There is no documentation on the web explaining what/who/when/how usewithtor > is different than torsocks. It's quite confusing. The only place I found > something was the usewithtor manpage. That's nice, but this info should be on > the web. Can/should be added to the wiki. > However, the manpage for usewithtor says "usewithtor runs torsocks(1) with > the default configuration file, located at /usr/local/etc/torsocks.conf. > Running torsocks(1) directly means that no configuration file will be > used..." If you read the torsocks manpage, it says "If TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE is > not set, torsocks will attempt to read the configuration file at > /usr/local/etc/torsocks.conf" > > So which manpage is correct? If the torsocks manpage is correct, then > usewithtor serves no purpose because it indicates its only purpose is to run > torsocks with that config file, right? So why not make sure torsocks works > like its manpage says it does and REMOVE usewithtor? End the confusion please! > > Back to torify which comes with Tor itself, now I have all three wrapper > scripts installed. I don't know which to use. I wish there was just one > because they all do the same thing from a newb perspective. > > If torify comes with Tor, is that the most reliable one to use? No, it's outdated. Only for people who haven't switched. > On the other hand, Tor does NOT come with torsocks so if you install that you > get the other wrappers anyway. HELP! Just use usewithtor. And to find out where torsocks.conf is, use whereis torsocks.conf _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
