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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-08-15 08:30:44 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-08-15 08:30:44 -0400
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Restore functionality for CookieAuthFileGroupReadable.
When we merged the cookieauthfile creation logic in 33c3e60a37, we accidentally took out this feature. Fixes bug 12864, bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Also adds an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable, since there's no reason not to.
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@@ -224,6 +224,13 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
for the Extended ORPort's cookie file -- the cookie file is needed
for pluggable transports to communicate through the Extended ORPort.
+[[ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable]] **ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable** **0**|**1**::
+ If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read the
+ Extende OR Port cookie file. If the option is set to 1, make the cookie
+ file readable by the default GID. [Making the file readable by other
+ groups is not yet implemented; let us know if you need this for some
+ reason.] (Default: 0)
+
[[ConnLimit]] **ConnLimit** __NUM__::
The minimum number of file descriptors that must be available to the Tor
process before it will start. Tor will ask the OS for as many file