Unable to run Tor in Kali as root I recently installed Kali linux (32bit) on my system. I downloaded the tor browser bundle and when I ran it, it displayed- The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root So as mentioned in one of the questions on the network, I edited the `start-tor-browser` file, and commented out the `exit 1` part. Now when I run Tor, it displays the following error message repeatedly- !Tor error log Clicking restart Tor doesnt help. Although , when I ran tor after creating a non root account, it ran without any glitch. So, how should I get tor running in root ?

`tor` performs many checks before starting, stopping if something in your system is deemed insecure. For example, wrong owner or bad permissions on `torrc` file could be the cause. A similar check is performed on `tor` executable itself.

You should run `tor` in a terminal, and check its output for errors. They are quite verbose and easy to understand. Fix those errors and `tor` will run.

If you can't be bothered with reading error messages, you can try to navigate to the directory where `tor` resides and execute the following command as `root`:


chown -R root *


Pay attention when executing this command, it may wreck your system if executed in the wrong directory.