klemmchr/tor-alpine

Simple, minimal and self updating docker image for Tor based on Alpine Linux.

Christian Klemm

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I'm a backend developer and DevOps engineer from Germany working for a company that develops an enterprise SaaS Platform hosted on Microsoft Azure.

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Error creating directory on torrc.config override

When I try to override the config file using a volume mount, I get an error running the container:

Nov 05 21:50:06.750 [notice] Tor 0.4.1.6 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.10-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1c, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma N/A, and Libzstd N/A.
Nov 05 21:50:06.750 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Nov 05 21:50:06.751 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc.config".
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9001
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [notice] Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9001
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [notice] Opening Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:9030
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [notice] Opened Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:9030
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [warn] Error creating directory /var/lib/tor/.tor: Permission denied
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't create private data directory "/var/lib/tor/.tor"
Nov 05 21:50:06.755 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

docker-compose.yml:

version: "3.7"
services:
    torrelay:
        container_name: torrelay
        hostname: torrelay
        restart: always
        image: chris579/tor-alpine
        volumes:
          - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
          - /data/tor/data:/var/lib/tor
          - /data/tor/config/torrc.config:/etc/tor/torrc.config
        ports:
          - 9001:9001
          - 9030:9030

Obviously it's some permission issue, but I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. I haven't volume mapped the whole /var/lib/tor directory, so I was assuming it shouldn't be an issue in that regard, but then I don't get this issue when I'm not overriding the config through a volume map.

Do I need to override the config some other way that I'm not seeing?

[EDIT]
Trying to pass the PUID and PGID didn't help either.

        environment:
          - PUID=${PUID}
          - PGID=${PGID}

The /data/tor folder and all contents are owned by the docker user.
Mapping the directory instead of the file doesn't work either:

          - /data/tor/config:/etc/tor

nyx support

Hello what about adding nyx support for statistics?

https://nyx.torproject.org/

RUN apk add --update \
     python \
     python-dev \
     py-pip \
     build-base \
  && pip install nyx

Also will need

ControlPort 9051

and authentication method of course

And maybe add localtime?

-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime \

And add environment:

-e 'NICKNAME=ehn' \