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CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set, but will have no effect

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ravinggenius commented

I'm following the tutorial for setting up Tor. After starting the Tor service (service tor start), I saw the following warning:

[warn] CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set, but will have no effect: you must specify an explicit CookieAuthFile to have it group-readable.

I'm setting mine to /var/lib/tor/control_auth_cookie, as suggested at https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/8705. If this is a bad idea or another location is more appropriate, please let me know (anyone).

seth586 commented

The default cookie path (when unspecified) is '/var/db/tor/control_auth_cookie'

The warning message was a nuisance, as the default cookie was still given group read permissions.

Adding the following line to /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc will remove the warning:

CookieAuthFile /var/db/tor/control_auth_cookie

I'll add it to the guide. Thanks!

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