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NAME
torsocks — Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the torsocks(8) library
to transparently torify an application.
SYNOPSIS
torsocks [OPTIONS] [COMMAND [ARG ...]]
DESCRIPTION
torsocks is a wrapper between the torsocks library and the application
in order to make every Internet communication go through the Tor net-
work.
By default, torsocks will assume that it should connect to the Tor SOCKS
proxy running at 127.0.0.1 on port 9050 being the defaults of the Tor
daemon.
In order to use a configuration file, torsocks tries to read the
/etc/tor/torsocks.conf file or look for the environment variable TOR-
SOCKS_CONF_FILE with the location of the file. If that file cannot be
read, torsocks will use sensible defaults for most Tor installations.
For further information on configuration, see torsocks.conf(5).
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show summary of possible options and commands.
--shell
Create a new shell with LD_PRELOAD including torsocks(8).
--version
Show version.
-u, --user
Set username for the SOCKS5 authentication. Use for circuit iso-
lation in Tor. Note that you MUST have a password set either by
the command line, environment variable or configuration file
(torsocks.conf(5).
-p, --pass
Set password for the SOCKS5 authentication. Use for circuit iso-
lation in Tor. Note that you MUST have a username set either by
the command line, environment variable or configuration file
(torsocks.conf(5)).
-a, --address
Set Tor address. Accepts only numeric addresses.
-P, --port
Set Tor port.
-i, --isolate
Automatic tor isolation. Set the username and password for the
SOCKS5 authentication method to a PID/current time based value
automatically. Username and Password MUST NOT be set.
-6, --ipv6
Enable creation of ipv6 sockets.
-d, --debug
Activate the debug mode. Output will be written on stderr.
-q, --quiet
Suppress every log messages (even errors).
on | off
This option adds or removes torsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD envi-
ronment variable for the current shell. If you want to use this
option, you HAVE to source torsocks from your shell.
Add the torsocks library to LD_PRELOAD
$ . torsocks on
Remove the torsocks library from LD_PRELOAD
$ . torsocks off
show | sh
Show the current value of the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Please see torsocks(8) for more detail on possible environment vari-
ables.
SEE ALSO
torsocks(8), torsocks.conf(5)
CREDITS
torsocks is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
A Web site is available at https://www.torproject.org for more informa-
tion.
You can also find the source code at https://git.torproject.org.
Mailing list for help is <tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> and for devel-
opment use <tor-dev@lists.torproject.org>. You can find the project also
on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #tor and #tor-dev.
AUTHOR
torsocks was originally written by Robert Hogan and has been rewritten
by David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org> in 2013.
March 3rd, 2014 TORSOCKS(1)
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