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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-10-03 16:32:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-10-04 15:43:20 -0400 |
| commit | 05aed5b635fa7148fe2a4ea87e7296fa6bec3087 (patch) | |
| tree | f45449d1ee6666ed094cd0afed4f158099f2e31d /doc | |
| parent | 684500519d5060fcbcc410a0e71d8d9a32fa8220 (diff) | |
| download | tor-05aed5b635fa7148fe2a4ea87e7296fa6bec3087.tar.gz tor-05aed5b635fa7148fe2a4ea87e7296fa6bec3087.zip | |
Allow a unix: address to contain a C-style quoted string.
Feature 18753 -- all this to allow spaces.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tor.1.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 9f4eb31445..1a584e89dc 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS any process on the local host to control it. (Setting both authentication methods means either method is sufficient to authenticate to Tor.) This option is required for many Tor controllers; most use the value of 9051. + If a unix domain socket is used, you may quote the path using standard + C escape sequences. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. (Default: 0) + + Recognized flags are... @@ -1032,7 +1034,9 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if applications. Set this to 0 if you don't want to allow application connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind - to multiple addresses/ports. (Default: 9050) + + to multiple addresses/ports. If a unix domain socket is used, you may + quote the path using standard C escape sequences. + (Default: 9050) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address other than localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution. @@ -2342,7 +2346,8 @@ The following options are used to configure a hidden service. recent HiddenServiceDir. By default, this option maps the virtual port to the same port on 127.0.0.1 over TCP. You may override the target port, address, or both by specifying a target of addr, port, addr:port, or - **unix:**__path__. (You can specify an IPv6 target as [addr]:port.) + **unix:**__path__. (You can specify an IPv6 target as [addr]:port. Unix + paths may be quoted, and may use standard C escapes.) You may also have multiple lines with the same VIRTPORT: when a user connects to that VIRTPORT, one of the TARGETs from those lines will be chosen at random. |