Hi,

I need to run Tor Browser as another user…

So here what I’m doing under, MX Linux ( Debian, SysVinit, xfce)

#as root, in a terminal under xfce

useradd --create-home --system --shell /usr/sbin/nologin TorUser
# btw --system or not ?

tar -xf tor-browser-linux...tar -C /opt --totals
chown -R TorUser:TorUser /opt/tor-browser

runuser -u TorUser -- /opt/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop

return

Launching ‘./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach’…

But nothing happen, and I don’t see any process for TorUser

any ideas ?

Posted on the offical Tor-browser in June, but no reactions so far… :/

  • Gordon_F@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 days ago

    I create also a “regular user” TorUser2
    To see if it generate the same problems
    This user have the .Xauthority file.\

    # as root user
    runuser -u TorUser2 -- /opt/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop
    

    return Launching ‘./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach…’
    and ps -u TorUser2 return nothing…


    I’ve tried also

    runuser -l TorUser2 -c '/opt/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop'
    

    /usr/bin/env: ‘./Browser/execdesktop’: No such file or directory