This means if Tor or the browser component has a vulnerability, someone might have a field day with you and you’re pretty much owned, given its running under root and hence will have full access. While technically it will work, you risk having an elevated process with root access to something as sensitive as Tor/Tor Browser.

Why shouldn’t you run the Tor Browser as root? You need to immediately ignore any further information these people are telling you as they are not your friends and are either misinformed or really don’t know the implications of what they are actually doing. So, when you see “guides” or “tutorials” on how to run the Tor Browser on Kali and it involves editing the actual sktop file to REMOVE the root user check. The Kali development team even acknowledges the point here. For anyone who has some knowledge of how Linux user/permissions work, this sounds like a bad idea right? Yes, technically it is, but Kali is a specialised Linux distribution for a certain purpose. What can I do to resolve the error please.If you’ve used Kali Linux you’ll be familiar with the fact that it runs everything as the root user by default.

If I open the Tor browser from the application section, the verifying signature dialog box pops up and after few seconds, close.Īnd if I open the Tor Browser Launcher settings, the details can also be seen from the screenshot below. I can see that the Tor Browser and Tor Browser Launcher settings has been installed as it's in the applications, screenshot below.

I did install both tor and torbrowser-launcher on my machine, but when I tried to run the command 'torbrowser-launcher', it shows the small dialog box saying installing and verifying signature, then I get the following message and it's not loading the tor browser:įileNotFoundError: No such file or directory: '/home/agent77_kali/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/ChangeLog.txt' This happen to be my first post to this community.

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