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@ -139,8 +139,6 @@ unsafe?</a></li>
<li><a href="#DoesntWork">Tor is running, but it's not working
correctly.</a></li>
<li><a href="#TorCrash">My Tor keeps crashing.</a></li>
<li><a href="#VidaliaPassword">Tor/Vidalia prompts for a password at
start.</a></li>
<li><a href="#ChooseEntryExit">Can I control which nodes (or
country)
are used for entry/exit?</a></li>
@ -560,7 +558,7 @@ Tor?</a></h3>
href="<page projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser</a>. This includes <a
href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/">Firefox
Extended Support Release</a>, and the NoScript and HTTPS-Everywhere
extensions. You will need to follow the licensefor those programs as
extensions. You will need to follow the license for those programs as
well. Both of those Firefox extensions are distributed under
the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General
Public License</a>, while Firefox ESR is released under the Mozilla Public
@ -2031,64 +2029,6 @@ to keep logs like this sitting around.)
<hr />
<a id="VidaliaPassword"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#VidaliaPassword">Tor/Vidalia prompts for a
password at start.</a></h3>
<p>
Vidalia interacts with the Tor software via Tor's "control port". The
control port lets Vidalia receive status updates from Tor, request a new
identity, configure Tor's settings, etc. Each time Vidalia starts Tor,
Vidalia sets a random password for Tor's control port to prevent other
applications from also connecting to the control port and potentially
compromising your anonymity.
</p>
<p>
Usually this process of generating and setting a random control password
happens in the background. There are three common situations, though,
where Vidalia may prompt you for a password:
</p>
<ol>
<li>You're already running Vidalia and Tor. For example, this situation
can happen if you installed the Vidalia bundle and now you're trying to
run the Tor Browser Bundle. In that case, you'll need to close the old
Vidalia and Tor before you can run this one.
</li>
<li>Vidalia crashed, but left Tor running with the last known random
password. After you restart Vidalia, it generates a new random password,
but Vidalia can't talk to Tor, because the random passwords are
different.
<br />
If the dialog that prompts you for a control password has a Reset
button,
you can click the button and Vidalia will restart Tor with a new random
control password.
<br />
If you do not see a Reset button, or if Vidalia is unable to restart
Tor for you, you can still fix the problem manually. Simply go into your
process or task manager, and terminate the Tor process. Then use Vidalia
to restart Tor and all will work again.
</li>
<li>You had previously set Tor to run as a Windows NT service. When Tor
is set to
run as a service, it starts up when the system boots. If you configured
Tor to start as a service through Vidalia, a random password was set
and saved in Tor. When you reboot, Tor starts up and uses the random
password it saved. You login and start up Vidalia. Vidalia attempts to
talk to the already running Tor. Vidalia generates a random password,
but it is different than the saved password in the Tor service.
<br />
You need to reconfigure Tor to not be a service. See the FAQ entry on
<a href="#NTservice">running Tor as a
Windows NT service</a>
for more information on how to remove the Tor service.
</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<a id="ChooseEntryExit"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#ChooseEntryExit">Can I control which
nodes (or country) are used for entry/exit?</a></h3>