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… :/

  • Elieas@lemmy.ml
    2·
    24 days ago

    TorUser doesn’t have access to your current user’s display. You need to first give access using something like xauth or xhost.

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
    1·
    24 days ago

    I don’t use .desktop files that much… But I guess xfce is X and not wayland. Check the DISPLAY env var for your user and set the same in your script there or run the binary with that env var.

  • Gordon_F@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    1·
    23 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