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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-05-26 15:45:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2017-05-30 14:15:42 -0400 |
| commit | 5860f0a7c8ec6aa9eb542a86b828f69e20251c98 (patch) | |
| tree | 45174c905b4371c3ef3eebf2ed85a44c09e33d77 /doc | |
| parent | 4a15b3169645a397fc8193f91737604538ac077e (diff) | |
| download | tor-5860f0a7c8ec6aa9eb542a86b828f69e20251c98.tar.gz tor-5860f0a7c8ec6aa9eb542a86b828f69e20251c98.zip | |
Update the torify.1 manpage
I went into this to fix 6892 and say "we don't do anything for
circuit isolation." But instead I did a fair amount of text-removal
to stop implying that torify does anything more than call torsocks.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/torify.1.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/torify.1.txt b/doc/torify.1.txt index 8dca901317..614e3f63fb 100644 --- a/doc/torify.1.txt +++ b/doc/torify.1.txt @@ -17,25 +17,25 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -**torify** is a simple wrapper that attempts to find the best underlying Tor -wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks with a tor specific -configuration file. + +**torify** is a simple wrapper that +calls torsocks with a tor-specific +configuration file. -torsocks is an improved wrapper that explicitly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS -lookups and properly socksifies your TCP connections. + - -Please note that since both method use LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied to -suid binaries. +It is provided for backward compatibility; probably instead you should +just use torsocks. WARNING ------- -When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data. + +When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data. + +torify can leak ICMP data. -Both will leak ICMP data. +torify will not ensure that different requests are processed on +different circuits. SEE ALSO -------- -**tor**(1), **tor-resolve**(1), **torsocks**(1) +**tor**(1), **torsocks**(1) AUTHORS ------- |