Tor can't access its dir?

Question

I've tried to set up a tor hidden service on /var/hidden.

And after chmod-ing it to 777 and chown-ing it to debian-tor it still won't work. Why is that? Why doesn't it have permission to write to that directory and it has to write the default /var/lib/tor?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 21 '13 at 12:53

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If you are on Ubuntu, then the apparmor policy will prevent writes anywhere but in /var/lib/tor.

I made a /var/lib/tor/hidden-services on my machines; that might work for you too.

You could also modify the apparmor policy, or disable apparmor.

PS: 777 is probably a bad idea.

edited Dec 21 '13 at 12:53

Andrew Lott

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answered Dec 20 '13 at 15:15

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Tor can't access its dir?

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