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You can however run this command as the kali user, while still logged in as root. You won’t be able to run torbrowser-launcher directly as root, because the same root user check will stop Tor Browser from running. Now comes the slightly more difficult part, but I can ensure you, it won’t involve editing shell scripts. You can install the package through the normal apt process. I use option two, because its a bit more maintainable, supported on Debian and works with Kali Linux as well. Compared to manually downloading and extracting it yourself. Its worth noting that torbrowser-launcher is not officially part of Tor, but it does simplify obtaining and keeping Tor Browser up to date.

Use a package called torbrowser-launcher which can be found here:.

Grab the Tor Browser and extract it manually.

You have two options for downloading the Tor Browser. You can login this account from the GDM (or whatever interface you’ve configured) to test the account. In addition to the root user, you know have a new kali user account. You will be asked to create a password and some information, most of which is not really needed. This will allow you to have a user account that’s not root (and doesn’t need to have sudo either) to run stuff like this.Ĭreating a Linux user is simple: adduser -home-dir /home/kali kali So how can you run Tor Browser properly in Kali Linux?Įssentially, you’ll want to create a new non-root user with a home directory, that can be used for this purpose. You can just as easily create a non-root user and run certain applications as it, while still being logged in as “root”.Using the remove root check method, each time you update the Tor Browser, you’ll need to keep applying this.

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. If you’ve used Kali Linux you’ll be familiar with the fact that it runs everything as the root user by default.