On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:34 PM, adrelanos <adrela...@riseup.net> wrote: > Just use usewithtor.
Why? I was under impression that "torify" is still the generic wrapper. Anyway, let's summarize briefly, since proliferation of related scripts is indeed confusing: packages: + tsocks: LD_PRELOAD=libtsocks.so hack for tunneling TCP via SOCKS + torsocks (supercedes tsocks): LD_PRELOAD=libtorsocks.so hack, as above configuration: + libtsocks.so: reads TSOCKS_CONF_FILE [default=/etc/socks/tsocks.conf] (and _USERNAME/_PASSWORD, etc.) environment variables + libtorsocks.so: reads TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE [default=/etc/torsocks.conf], as above wrappers: + tsocks (tsocks package): runs command with LD_PRELOAD=libtsocks.so + torsocks (torsocks package): runs command with LD_PRELOAD=libtorsocks.so + torify (tor package): runs torsocks if available, otherwise runs tsocks with TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=/etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf + usewithtor (torsocks package): runs torsocks with (redundant) TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE=/etc/torsocks.conf So, for instance, the following commands are equivalent (ignoring that tsocks is outdated, and assuming similar /etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf and /etc/torsocks.conf): + TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=/etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libtsocks.so curl -x "" cmyip.com + TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=/etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf tsocks curl -x "" cmyip.com + ln -sf /etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf /etc/socks/tsocks.conf && LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libtsocks.so curl -x "" cmyip.com + ln -sf /etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf /etc/socks/tsocks.conf && tsocks curl -x "" cmyip.com + LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/torsocks/libtorsocks.so curl -x "" cmyip.com + torsocks curl -x "" cmyip.com + usewithtor curl -x "" cmyip.com To me it seems like "usewithtor" should be removed from torsocks package (its warning for missing /etc/torsocks.conf is duplicated by libtorsocks.so anyway), "torsocks" is fine as a torsocks package-owned abstraction for LD_PRELOAD, and "torify" is the tor package-owned wrapper that should be used by applications. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
