In my previous article, I showed you how to manually compile and install obfs4proxy, which you can apply for this guide too (but read on).
Today, I was managing a friend’s Tor bridge, which uses obfs4proxy to hide the fact. While Tor itself was running from the official Tor Project repositories and up to date (and updates get installed automatically), I noticed obfs4proxy was from the Ubuntu repos, at version 0.0.8, which is quite old and does not incorporate the security updates from 0.0.14!
So, of course, I followed my own guide to manually compile and install obfs4proxy… but it didn’t work. After some digging, I realized it’s because of AppArmor!
So you simply edit the file:
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/torLook for these two lines:
/usr/bin/obfsproxy PUx,
/usr/bin/obfs4proxy Pix,And add the following two lines underneath those:
/usr/local/bin/obfsproxy PUx,
/usr/local/bin/obfs4proxy Pix,Then I simply rebooted, and obfs4proxy could bind to port 443, and the bridge was running again, up to date!
If this helped you out, consider donating a cup of coffee. :D
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@[email protected] Don't use obfs4proxy from the Ubuntu repos, it's heavily outdated!