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clean up the cookieauth stuff

svn:r11146
Roger Dingledine 17 years ago
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2 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 5 2
      doc/tor.1.in
  2. 1 2
      src/or/config.c

+ 5 - 2
doc/tor.1.in

@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ compute the hash of a password by running "tor --hash-password
 If this option is set to 1, don't allow any connections on the control port
 except when the connecting process knows the contents of a file named
 "control_auth_cookie", which Tor will create in its data directory.  This
-authentication methods should only be used on systems with good filesystem
+authentication method should only be used on systems with good filesystem
 security. (Default: 0)
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@@ -1181,7 +1181,10 @@ recording of statistics is enabled.
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 .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/control_auth_cookie
-Used for cookie authentication with the controller. Regenerated on startup.  See control-spec.txt for details.  Only used when cookie authentication is enabled.
+Used for cookie authentication with the controller. Location can be
+overridden by the CookieAuthFile config option. Regenerated on startup.
+See control-spec.txt for details.  Only used when cookie authentication
+is enabled.
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 .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/keys/*

+ 1 - 2
src/or/config.c

@@ -152,9 +152,8 @@ static config_var_t _option_vars[] = {
   VAR("ControlPort",         UINT,     ControlPort,          "0"),
   VAR("ControlSocket",       LINELIST, ControlSocket,        NULL),
   VAR("CookieAuthentication",BOOL,     CookieAuthentication, "0"),
-  VAR("CookieAuthFileGroupReadable",BOOL,  CookieAuthFileGroupReadable, "0"),
+  VAR("CookieAuthFileGroupReadable",BOOL,CookieAuthFileGroupReadable, "0"),
   VAR("CookieAuthFile",      STRING,   CookieAuthFile,       "0"),
-  VAR("CookieAuthentication",BOOL,     CookieAuthentication, "0"),
   VAR("DataDirectory",       STRING,   DataDirectory,        NULL),
   OBSOLETE("DebugLogFile"),
   VAR("DirAllowPrivateAddresses",BOOL, DirAllowPrivateAddresses, NULL),