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Tor on OpenBSD 7.3

#tor #network #privacy #openbsd

Summary

Tor 🧅 provides highly private access 👯 to the Web ✨

This post shows how to install it and run on OpenBSD.

Environment

  • OS: OpenBSD 7.3
  • Daemon and client: Tor 0.4

Tutorial

Install

The easiest way is to use pkg_add:

$ doas pkg_add tor
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The result was:

quirks-6.121 signed on 2023-06-27T13:21:34Z
tor-0.4.7.13:libevent-2.1.12p0: ok
tor-0.4.7.13: ok
The following new rcscripts were installed: /etc/rc.d/tor
See rcctl(8) for details.
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Configure (Optional)

The configuration file is placed as /etc/tor/torrc.

Run the daemon

Activate it first:

$ doas rcctl enable tor
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Then run:

$ doas rcctl start tor
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It printed out like:

tor(ok)
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Check it works

Run to test:

$ curl \
      -x socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050 \
      -s https://check.torproject.org/api/ip
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You will see like:

{"IsTor":true,"IP":"xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"}
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Yes, it's working fine and we are in the Tor network and relays :)

Conclusion

There are just few steps necessary to join Tor on OpenBSD 🌻 🧅 🐡

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