How To Run TOR as a Non-Root User

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:


$ useradd guest


$ passwd guest


$ runuser -l guest -c ./start-tor-browser.desktop

Which gave me the lovely error message below:


$ Tor Browser must be run within the X Window System

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:

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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