Re: how can I use "tor"

[Gottfried]

Thanks,

I have taken a photo of my Icecat connection settings.

In order not to make a mistake, I am asking again, how to fill in this 
settings? (I still understand too little, that's why I prefer to ask 
before making mistakes)

As far as I understood you, Icecat will then run via Tor.
Is it possible to run Tor separately from Icecat, because as I wrote, 
the Tor Website discourages to use Tor in connection with other browsers.

Gottfried



Am 21.07.22 um 22:35 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
> Hi Gottfried,
>
> you don't have to install tor or run it manually. The service is
> already running tor for you. To use Tor, you need to use a socks proxy
> to localhost:9050.
>
> You can configure icecat to connect to that proxy (and then check that
> you're actually connected through tor: https://check.torproject.org/
> should say "Congratulations").
>
> For other apps, you can use torsocks to proxy traffic through them, eg:
>
>    torsocks wget \
>    http://c25o7knygjm3m67jy27yuynvv4pkfi25naucscmh4ubq2ggiig3v57ad.onion/
>
> (that's my home page)
>
> Or, if they support it, you can configure the socks proxy directly in
> their configuration.
>
> HTH!
>
> Le Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:49:29 +0000,
> Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> a écrit :
>
> > Hi Guixers,
> >
> > I installed "tor, tor-client, torsocks". and
> > also I have "tor-service-type" in my config.scm.
> >
> > Nevertheless it doesn't appear anywhere.
> >
> > I would like to use the Tor server separately, not in Firefox, as Tor
> > Website proposed.
> >
> > gfp@Tuxedo ~$ tor
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.097 [notice] Tor 0.4.7.8 running on Linux with
> > Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1q, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.5,
> > Libzstd 1.5.0 and Glibc 2.33 as libc.
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.097 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
> > Learn how to be safe at
> > https://support.torproject.org/faq/staying-anonymous/
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.098 [notice] Configuration file
> > "/gnu/store/11azs9lmx363vi1vnz59aim5yp1rv2b9-tor-client-0.4.7.8/etc/tor/torrc"
> > not present, using reasonable defaults.
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.106 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.106 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address
> > already in use. Is Tor already running?
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.106 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to
> > bind one of the listener ports.
> > Jul 21 19:30:24.106 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
> >
> > I guess, I have to set up other things as well, but I don't know what
> > and how.
> >
> > I didn't find enough information in the manual that makes it clear to
> > me. I found that in the manual:
> >
> > 10.8.4 Networking Services
> >
> > Scheme Variable: tor-service-type
> > This is the type for a service that runs the Tor anonymous networking
> > daemon. The service is configured using a <tor-configuration> record.
> > By default, the Tor daemon runs as the tor unprivileged user, which
> > is a member of the tor group.
> >
> > Data Type: tor-configuration
> > tor (default: tor)
> >
> > The package that provides the Tor daemon. This package is expected to
> > provide the daemon at bin/tor relative to its output directory. The
> > default package is the Tor Project’s implementation.
> >
> > config-file (default: (plain-file "empty" ""))
> > The configuration file to use. It will be appended to a default
> > configuration file, and the final configuration file will be passed
> > to tor via its -f option. This may be any “file-like” object (see
> > file-like objects). See man tor for details on the configuration file
> > syntax.
> >
> > hidden-services (default: '())
> > The list of <hidden-service> records to use. For any hidden service
> > you include in this list, appropriate configuration to enable the
> > hidden service will be automatically added to the default
> > configuration file. You may conveniently create <hidden-service>
> > records using the tor-hidden-service procedure described below.
> >
> > socks-socket-type (default: 'tcp)
> > The default socket type that Tor should use for its SOCKS socket.
> > This must be either 'tcp or 'unix. If it is 'tcp, then by default Tor
> > will listen on TCP port 9050 on the loopback interface (i.e.,
> > localhost). If it is 'unix, then Tor will listen on the UNIX domain
> > socket /var/run/tor/socks-sock, which will be made writable by
> > members of the tor group.
> > If you want to customize the SOCKS socket in more detail, leave
> > socks-socket-type at its default value of 'tcp and use config-file to
> > override the default by providing your own SocksPort option.
> >
> > control-socket? (default: #f)
> > Whether or not to provide a “control socket” by which Tor can be
> > controlled to, for instance, dynamically instantiate tor onion
> > services. If #t, Tor will listen for control commands on the UNIX
> > domain socket /var/run/tor/control-sock, which will be made writable
> > by members of the tor group.
> >
> > Scheme Procedure: tor-hidden-service name mapping
> >
> > Define a new Tor hidden service called name and implementing mapping.
> > mapping is a list of port/host tuples, such as:
> >
> >    '((22 "127.0.0.1:22")
> >      (80 "127.0.0.1:8080"))
> >
> > In this example, port 22 of the hidden service is mapped to local
> > port 22, and port 80 is mapped to local port 8080.
> >
> > This creates a /var/lib/tor/hidden-services/name directory, where the
> > hostname file contains the .onion host name for the hidden service.
> >
> > See the Tor project’s documentation for more information.
> >
> >
> > I read several emails in the guix-help archive about Tor from 2019,
> > but I don't know how to put that into practice.
> >
> > Could somebody help me?
> >
> > Gottfried


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