From: David Stainton Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 18:42:54 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add legacy torsocks usage X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html/frontends/using.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f98e84299a2e257091aafd1b9b0f81e7ab09f4ca;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git Add legacy torsocks usage --- diff --git a/docs/tor.rst b/docs/tor.rst index 86a6a236..b409386d 100644 --- a/docs/tor.rst +++ b/docs/tor.rst @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Using Tahoe-LAFS with Tor 3. `Software Dependencies`_ 4. `Configuration`_ 5. `Performance and security issues of Tor Hidden Services`_ - +6. `Torsocks: the old way of configuring Tahoe-LAFS to use Tor`_ Use cases ========= @@ -200,3 +200,32 @@ Tor Hidden Service, as compared to if you upload or download files over Tor to a publicly traceable TCP/IP server. + +Torsocks: the old way of configuring Tahoe-LAFS to use Tor +========================================================== + +Before the native Tor integration for Tahoe-LAFS, users would use Torsocks. +Please see these pages for more information about Torsocks:: +* https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/ +* https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks +* https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks/ + + +Starting And Stopping +--------------------- + +Assuming you have your Tahoe-LAFS node directory placed in **~/.tahoe**, +use Torsocks to start Tahoe like this: + usewithtor tahoe start + +Likewise if restarting, then with Torsocks like this:: + usewithtor tahoe restart + +After Tahoe is started, additional Tahoe commandline commands will not +need to be executed with Torsocks because the Tahoe gateway long running +process handles all the network connectivity. + + +Configuration +------------- +