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authorJacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>2009-04-29 14:35:06 -0700
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2009-04-29 19:04:05 -0400
commit9043932789c516a263c16729f53773d8ef0121a4 (patch)
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parent6ac3a8b0cd1946e90a4c997e8fad1bfc63890abd (diff)
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Make the torify script use torify when available.
Update Torify to use torsocks by default and to warn when the user is using the older tsocks program. Update torify and the torify man page to refelect changes to torify. Add warnings in both.
-rw-r--r--contrib/torify.118
-rwxr-xr-xcontrib/torify.in65
2 files changed, 62 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/torify.1 b/contrib/torify.1
index b08d46845..9ae4e40d9 100644
--- a/contrib/torify.1
+++ b/contrib/torify.1
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
.TH torify 1 "" Jan-2009 ""
-.\" manual page by Peter Palfrader
+.\" manual page by Peter Palfrader and Jacob Appelbaum
.SH NAME
.LP
-torify \- wrapper for tsocks and tor
+torify \- wrapper for torsocks or tsocks and tor
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBtorify\fP\ \fIapplication\fP\ [\fIapplication's\ arguments\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
-\fBtorify\fR is a simple wrapper that calls tsocks with a tor specific
+\fBtorify\fR is a simple wrapper that attempts to find the best underlying Tor
+wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks or tsocks with a tor specific
configuration file.
+torsocks is an improved wrapper that explictly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS
+lookups and properly socksifies your TCP connections.
+
tsocks itself is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application
that you would like to run socksified.
-Please note that since tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied
+Please note that since both method use LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied
to suid binaries.
+.SH WARNING
You should also be aware that the way tsocks currently works only TCP
connections are socksified. Be aware that this will in most circumstances
not include hostname lookups which would still be routed through your
@@ -25,8 +30,13 @@ normal system resolver to your usual resolving nameservers. The
The Tor FAQ at https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ might
have further information on this subject.
+When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data.
+
+Both will leak ICMP data.
+
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR tor (1),
.BR tor-resolve (1),
+.BR torsocks (1),
.BR tsocks (1),
.BR tsocks.conf (5).
diff --git a/contrib/torify.in b/contrib/torify.in
index 05645fd07..6b1e440dc 100755
--- a/contrib/torify.in
+++ b/contrib/torify.in
@@ -10,36 +10,67 @@
# Define and ensure we have tsocks
# XXX: what if we don't have which?
+TORSOCKS="`which torsocks`"
TSOCKS="`which tsocks`"
+PROG=""
if [ ! -x "$TSOCKS" ]
then
- echo "$0: Can't find tsocks in PATH. Perhaps you haven't installed it?" >&2
- exit 1
+ echo "$0: Can't find tsocks in PATH. Perhaps you haven't installed it?" >&2
+else
+ PROG=$TSOCKS
+fi
+if [ ! -x "$TORSOCKS" ]
+then
+ echo "$0: Can't find torsocks in PATH. Perhaps you haven't installed it?" >&2
+else
+ PROG=$TORSOCKS
+fi
+
+if [ ! -x "$PROG" ]
+then
+ echo "$0: Can't find the required tor helpers in our PATH. Perhaps you haven't installed them?" >&2
+ exit 1;
fi
# Check for any argument list
if [ "$#" = 0 ]
then
- echo "Usage: $0 <command> [<options>...]" >&2
- exit 1
+ echo "Usage: $0 [-hv] <command> [<options>...]" >&2
+ exit 1
fi
if [ "$#" = 1 ] && ( [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ] )
then
- echo "Usage: $0 <command> [<options>...]"
- exit 0
+ echo "Usage: $0 [-hv] <command> [<options>...]"
+ exit 0
fi
-# Define our tsocks config file
-TSOCKS_CONF_FILE="@CONFDIR@/tor-tsocks.conf"
-export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE
+if [ "$1" = "-v" ] || [ "$1" = "--verbose" ]
+then
+ echo "We're armed with the following tsocks: $TSOCKS"
+ echo "We're armed with the following torsocks: $TORSOCKS"
+ echo "We're attempting to use $PROG for all tor action."
+ shift 1
+fi
-# Check that we've got a tsocks config file
-if [ -r "$TSOCKS_CONF_FILE" ]
+if [ "$PROG" == "$TSOCKS" ]
then
- exec tsocks "$@"
- echo "$0: Failed to exec tsocks $@" >&2
- exit 1
-else
- echo "$0: Missing tsocks configuration file \"$TSOCKS_CONF_FILE\"." >&2
- exit 1
+ # Define our tsocks config file
+ TSOCKS_CONF_FILE="/etc/tor/tor-tsocks.conf"
+ export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE
+
+ # Check that we've got a tsocks config file
+ if [ -r "$TSOCKS_CONF_FILE" ]
+ then
+ echo "WARNING: tsocks is known to leak DNS and UDP data." >&2
+ exec tsocks "$@"
+ echo "$0: Failed to exec tsocks $@" >&2
+ exit 1
+ else
+ echo "$0: Missing tsocks configuration file \"$TSOCKS_CONF_FILE\"." >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+fi
+if [ "$PROG" == "$TORSOCKS" ]
+then
+ exec torsocks "$@"
fi