I am going to start playing with puppet to see if I can figure a way out to do this. Or something similar. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Moritz Bartl <moritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06.04.2011 11:01, tagnaq wrote: >>> We could change the permissions for torrc and init.d/tor accordingly? >> If it is ok for you that debian-tor is allowed to login via ssh, giving >> him write permissions to the torX.cfg files is enough - no modification >> of /etc/init.d/tor required. >> (I'm not sure if on all of your hosts the user is called like that.) > > Why not give the SSH user limited SUDO rights for /etc/init.d/tor , and > add it to the group that can edit /etc/tor/* ? > > I think it should be better discussed on IRC, the mailing list should > not be spammed to much IMHO. We have a lot of subscribers that are not > interested in the gory tech details I believe. > > -- > Moritz Bartl > https://www.torservers.net/ >