

Creating Tor Browser Desktop shortcut on Kali Linux Step 8 Run the browserįinally, everything is done, just double click on the TorBrowser Desktop shortcut to run it. Then right-click on the To Browser shortcut and select Send To followed by Desktop (CreateLink).Īlternatively, you can copy this already created shortcut present in the Tor folder directly to Desktop or anywhere from where you want to start it. Under that, you will find extracted tor-brwowser_en-US folder open that too. Now, open home directory given on the Desktop and click on the Downloads folder. Tar -xvf tor-browser-linu圆4-9.0.3_ Download and extract Tor browser Tar file Step 7: Create Tor browser Desktop shortcut Use the terminal and switch to Downloads directory: Open your Kali default system browser, go to the download pageof TorBrowser and get the setup for Linux. Now logout and login Kali Linux with your newly created user. Note: Here we are using h2s as our new user, you can replace it with the one you want to create.

When it says to enter a new password, do that. PS: Use Tor Browser for legitimate purposes only.Step 3: Create a new user in Kali Linux for Tor browserĪs we know Kali doesn’t allow running Tor browser under root user thus, we need to create one with low privileges. Voila! You have successfully launched Tor Browser using standard user account/privileges. Type in following sudo -u -H torbrowser-launcher Once you're done with the command above, it's time to execute the command that will launch torbrowser-launcher. It add/delete hostname/username to a acl list allowed to make connections to the X server. Xhost is a server access control program for X display server. Once you have finished installing the package, you will need to run following command to add user you have created SI:localuser: Once you're done with above task, go ahead and install following package, torbrowser-launcher from apt install torbrowser-launcher Following commands will help you achieve upgrade Once you're done with performing above task, go ahead and update your Kali Linux distribution. Verify if the home directory is created, by issuing following -alFh /home/

To start off, create a user in Kali Linux with password and home A lot of programs in Kali Linux requires you to run as root user, and Tor Browser does not like it run with root privileges. This article is a simple trick to have Tor Browser running as non-root user in Kali Linux.
