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
    1·
    2 days ago

    I’ve try one guidance, but it didn’t worked.

    I quit the xfce, login as root, did

    echo $XAUTHORITY
#returned nothing

XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority.tmp
xauth -f $XAUTHORITY generate :0 . trusted

    and after few minute it returned

    xauth: (argv):1 unable to open display :0 😢

    • kumi@feddit.onlineEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Do you get a different result if you replace that :0 with your actual DISPLAY value?

      Also make sure you run that in a context that does have access to the x server (i guess keep your display manager running as you do this).

      Depending on your setup you should be running such commands as normal user instead of root.