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TORSOCKS(1)                                                        TORSOCKS(1)


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
       network.

       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
       TORSOCKS_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
              isolation 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
              isolation in Tor.  Note that you MUST have a username set either
              by the command line, environment variable or configuration file
              (torsocks.conf(5)).

       -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.

       -d, --debug
              Activate the debug mode. Output will be written on stderr.

       on | off
              This option adds or removes torsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD
              environment 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
       variables.


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
       information.

       You can also find the source code at https://git.torproject.org.

       Mailing list for help is <tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> and for
       development 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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