On 3/24/13 11:16 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
On 3/24/13 11:11 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote:
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <lists@infosecurity.ch mailto:lists@infosecurity.ch> wrote:
To fix that need it would be nice to make a sort of "hosting provider" (using existing tool for customer management, payments, server/application deployment & maintenance) to host Tor Exit.This would definitely be cool, though honestly I was thinking more pre-configured bundles for common ISP(s).
Well, it would still need to have some kind of "Web management" software to let the non-unix-skilled person carry on regular maintenace procedure without a unix terminal such as:
- Configure Tor (nickname, bandwidth, etc)
- Check if there's an upgrade & upgrade Tor when needed
- See if Tor is running / ability to shutdown / restart it
That's something that should need to be pre-installed to facilitate the regular maintenance operations for that non-unix-skilled persons.
Does something like that still exists ?
Got an idea of an alternative solution to the problem "Let someone without unix-skills to setup and maintain it's own Tor Exit on their favorite server provider".
We can make a "GUI Application" that let this kind of user to: - Configure Tor (nickname, bandwidth, etc) - Check if there's an upgrade & upgrade Tor when needed - See if Tor is running / ability to shutdown / restart it
That kind of application automate via SSH/SCP the procedure explained below. The procedure would be finely tuned for all the different main unix operating systems available (that are the one ready-made on the vps/server provider of installable list).
The user experience would be: - Start the application - Select operating system version (Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 6, CentOS X, etc, etc) - Insert hostname, root's username, password - Configure visually on the UI: - Nickname - Bandwidth - Exit Policy - Click "Deploy Tor"
Et voilà, the tor intance would be installed and configured on the remote server trough SSH/SCP for that specific OS version.
Other options provided to the end-user by the UI would complete the maintenance operation required: - Check for upgrade - Upgrade - Start / Stop / Restart
With such approach you would still had made possible for non-unix users to deploy and maintain tor on unix's vps of all the provider.
Fabio