Hello Friends,
Today I finally figured out something that had eluded for quite a while, and that is... the mysterious process of running TOR as a non-root user!
Like many other novice hackers, I had tried to run TOR by adding a user in Kali Linux through the following CLI commands:
This last output one gives us a clue: the X Window System is graphical interface, which means that we need to run this software outside the CLI (you can try downloading the xorg, but that proved to be much of a headache). To do this, go here:
Today I finally figured out something that had eluded for quite a while, and that is... the mysterious process of running TOR as a non-root user!
Like many other novice hackers, I had tried to run TOR by adding a user in Kali Linux through the following CLI commands:
$ useradd guest
$ passwd guest
Which gave me the lovely error message below:$ runuser -l guest -c ./start-tor-browser.desktop
$ Tor Browser must be run within the X Window System
Log out as root and login as the user you created. The computer will load the GUI and you will now be able to run TOR as a non-root user!
Please let me know if this tutorial helped you out! xoxo
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