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TORSOCKS(1) | TORSOCKS(1) |
NAME¶
torsocks — Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the torsocks(8) library to transparently torify an application.SYNOPSIS¶
torsocks [OPTIONS] [COMMAND [ARG ...]]DESCRIPTION¶
torsocks is a wrapper between the torsocks library and the application in order to make every Internet communication go through the Tor network.OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- Show summary of possible options and commands.
- --shell
- Create a new shell with LD_PRELOAD including torsocks(8).
- --version
- Show version.
- -u, --user
- Set username for the SOCKS5 authentication. Use for circuit isolation in Tor. Note that you MUST have a password set either by the command line, environment variable or configuration file (torsocks.conf(5).
- -p, --pass
- Set password for the SOCKS5 authentication. Use for circuit isolation in Tor. Note that you MUST have a username set either by the command line, environment variable or configuration file (torsocks.conf(5)).
- -d, --debug
- Activate the debug mode. Output will be written on stderr.
- on | off
- This option adds or removes torsocks(8) from the
LD_PRELOAD environment variable for the current shell. If you want to use
this option, you HAVE to source torsocks from your shell.
Add the torsocks library to LD_PRELOAD $ . torsocks on
- show | sh
- Show the current value of the LD_PRELOAD environment
variable.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
Please see torsocks(8) for more detail on possible environment variables.SEE ALSO¶
torsocks(8), torsocks.conf(5)CREDITS¶
torsocks is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. A Web site is available at https://www.torproject.org for more information. You can also find the source code at https://git.torproject.org. Mailing list for help is <tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> and for development use <tor-dev@lists.torproject.org>. You can find the project also on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #tor and #tor-dev.AUTHOR¶
torsocks was originally written by Robert Hogan and has been rewritten by David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org> in 2013.March 3rd, 2014 |