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

    Thank you @mina86@lemmy.wtf I’ve look where point the $XAUTHORITY but it point to another user /home/<aUser>/.Xauthority and to give access to the file I have to change also the permission on the parent folders… not to hot to do so…

    I see also the TorUser do not have a file .Xauthority ! I’ve look how generate one for it, but I found no good documentation ! They show how do it once logged with TorUser ! but mine is not meant to be used to login on the system…

    • mina86@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      You can just copy the file and set XAUTHORITY as necessary. Just make sure only the desired user can read it.

    • Gordon_F@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 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.