How to set the username and password to use Tor?

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Hello,
If someone has the IP address and port of my Tor server, they can connect to it and get services.
How can I authenticate it?

Thank you.

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Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Isn’t there something simpler like setting the username and password?

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I think the simplest solution would be to setup a Onionshare (see: How OnionShare Works — OnionShare 2.6 documentation)

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Hello,
Thanks again.
Please see the following image that I found via Google search:

proxycap-2

As you see, it has a Proxy require authentication option. The client must enter the username and password for using the proxy.
I want when someone enters the IP address of my Tor server to his\her browser proxy section to use it as a proxy server, then he\she must enter the username and password to use.

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I believe the question is about limiting access to a Tor bridge (relay?), not an Onion service. With that said, firstly, I don’t know a direct solution, but:

  • I know that in order to use a Tor bridge you have to specify its fingerprint and certificate (see https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges/). But I don’t know whether this makes a bridge unusable if you don’t know these values beforehand. If it’s the case, then nobody can use your bridge by default, as long as BridgeDistribution is none.
  • I’m curious to know what your use case is, because it seems unrealistic to me that someone would want to scan random IPs to find a bridge just to use it, because why would you do that when you can just use one of the thousands of public Tor relays.
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Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Consider a company that lunched a Tor server and by default if anyone enters the Tor server IP address and port, then he\she can use the proxy. I want to limit it.

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Hello,
How about the following lines?

Socks5ProxyUsername username
Socks5ProxyPassword password
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Socks5Proxy host[:port]

Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 5 proxy at host:port (or host:1080 if port is not specified).

Socks5ProxyUsername username

Socks5ProxyPassword password

If defined, authenticate to the SOCKS 5 server using username and password in accordance to RFC 1929. Both username and password must be between 1 and 255 characters.

These are used, when your Tor needs to connect through a proxy to reach the internet - not for Tor to provide a SOCKS-proxy.

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Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
Why did the Tor not consider such a feature?