On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:35:28PM +0100, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > > Whereas if you add your own user to the debian-tor group, and then run > > nyx > > as yourself, you are better isolated from pieces of Tor that nyx has no > > business being able to access. > > Is there anything wrong with usermod in terms of security? > > sudo adduser $USER debian-tor > sudo usermod -aG debian-tor $USER
I don't know of anything specifically wrong with usermod -aG, but I just asked a Debian sysadmin, who said that adduser is the much better choice: adduser handles errors better and more safely, whereas usermod is a much lower level function where it's easier to hurt yourself. Sounds like a "feel free to do whichever one you like more, but for our documentation, we should be pointing people to adduser" situation. --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
