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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2008-11-10 00:41:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2008-11-10 00:41:07 +0000 |
| commit | 0554e87f58216a0abefb3867278103f39ee63814 (patch) | |
| tree | 1335ef23d5dabf3b8bc90f738f1c0dfafc650732 /src/common | |
| parent | 4d8799b9874aa55639c26239b66812d63b43023e (diff) | |
| download | tor-0554e87f58216a0abefb3867278103f39ee63814.tar tor-0554e87f58216a0abefb3867278103f39ee63814.tar.gz | |
better error message when you set User but start tor as non-root.
hopefully will address bug 857.
svn:r17232
Diffstat (limited to 'src/common')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/compat.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c index 42d1754ee..bf7e27e18 100644 --- a/src/common/compat.c +++ b/src/common/compat.c @@ -1052,7 +1052,8 @@ switch_id(const char *user) /* Properly switch egid,gid,euid,uid here or bail out */ if (setgroups(1, &pw->pw_gid)) { - log_warn(LD_GENERAL, "Error setting groups to gid %d: %s", + log_warn(LD_GENERAL, "Error setting groups to gid %d: \"%s\". " + "If you set the \"User\" option, you must start Tor as root.", (int)pw->pw_gid, strerror(errno)); return -1; } |