Onionshare doesn't play well with systemwide tor about onionshare HOT 4 CLOSED

This is related to (perhaps a duplicate of?) #21. At first I thought that the control port issue was the only problem, but you're totally right, permissions issue also prevent this from working.

At first I was planning on making this work with a system tor, but I'm actually leaning towards just not supporting it at all, and instead telling people to open Tor Browser first. (That's how I've been using it in Linux, and it's the only easy way to use it in Windows and OSX.)

BTW another software project I run, Tor Browser Launcher, takes the pain out of using Tor Browser in Linux: https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher

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It is true that OnionShare works nicely with the Tor Browser Launcher, however, turning on AppArmor for TBL (using the instructions on your github download page for the project) cause Onionshare to fail, as it can't write the /tmp/onionshare_** file.

For now, I've turned off AppArmor, but I'd very much prefer to avoid doing this.

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Oh, interesting, I hadn't thought of that. The AppArmor profiles in Tor Browser Launcher needs to be fixed up anyway, they're less than ideal and don't work well in Debian. There's already an issue for fixing the AppArmor profiles, but I just updated it to make sure the Tor control port remains accessible with the new AppArmor profiles: torproject/torbrowser-launcher#92

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I know the Tor Browser Launcher/AppArmor issue isn't yet resolved, but I'm going to close this issue anyway because it will be resolved once that Tor Browser Launcher bug is fixed. I think relying on Tor Browser instead of a system tor is the way to go with OnionShare.

The only exception of course is in Tails, where there's only a system tor. The workaround there is that it requires you to run OnionShare as root.

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