weasel explained that apparmor limits on what files tor can read do not
apply to sockets (because they're not files). And apparently the
problems I was seeing with hidden services not being accessible had to
do with onion address propigation and not the location of the socket
file.
remotedaemon looks up the HiddenServicePort in torrc, so if it was
previously configured with the socket in /etc, that will still work.
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On Debian, apparmor prevents tor from reading from most locations. And,
it silently fails if it is prevented from reading the hidden service
socket. I filed #846275 about this; violating the FHS is the least bad of a
bad set of choices until that bug is fixed.
Still a couple bugs:
* Closing the connection to the server leaves git upload-pack /
receive-pack running, which could be used to DOS.
* Sometimes the data is transferred, but it fails at the end, sometimes
with:
git-remote-tor-annex: <socket: 10>: commitBuffer: resource vanished (Broken pipe)
Must be a race condition around shutdown.
Almost working, but there's a bug in the relaying.
Also, made tor hidden service setup pick a random port, to make it harder
to port scan.
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This avoids needing to bind to the right port before something else
does.
The socket is in /var/run/user/$uid/ which ought to be writable by only
that uid. At least it is on linux systems using systemd.
For Windows, may need to revisit this and use ports or something.
The first version of tor to support sockets for hidden services
was 0.2.6.3. That is not in Debian stable, but is available in
backports.
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Tor unfortunately does not come out of the box configured to let hidden
services register themselves on the fly via the ControlPort.
And, changing the config to enable the ControlPort and a particular type
of auth for it may break something already using the ControlPort, or
lessen the security of the system.
So, this leaves only one option to us: Add a hidden service to the
torrc. git-annex enable-tor does so, and picks an unused high port for
tor to listen on for connections to the hidden service.
It's up to the caller to somehow pick a local port to listen on
that won't be used by something else. That may be difficult to do..
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