NAME¶
usewithtor - Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the
torsocks(8) library
to transparently allow an application to use a SOCKS proxy.
SYNOPSIS¶
usewithtor [application [application's arguments]]
DESCRIPTION¶
usewithtor is a wrapper between the torsocks library and the application
what you would like to run socksified.
OPTIONS¶
- [application [application's arguments]]
- run the application as specified with the environment
(LD_PRELOAD) set such that torsocks(8) will transparently proxy SOCKS
connections in that program.
USEWITHTOR VERSUS TORSOCKS¶
usewithtor runs
torsocks(1) with the default configuration file,
located at
/etc/torsocks.conf. Running
torsocks(1) directly means that
no configuration file will be used (unless you manually set the
TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE or TSOCKS_CONF_FILE environment variable), instead
torsocks(8) will use defaults that are sensible for most Tor
installations.
USEWITHTOR VERSUS TORIFY¶
usewithtor(1) and
torify(1) intend to achieve the same ends for
most practical purposes. However
torify(1) will use a default tsocks
installation if one exists.
Usewithtor(1) will only ever use a
torsocks(8) installation.
SEE ALSO¶
torsocks.conf(5) torsocks(1) usewithtor(1)
AUTHOR¶
Robert Hogan (robert@roberthogan.net).This script is very similar to
torify(1),
provided by the Tor project.