Key generation breaks on Whonix Workstation 16 (Control Machine)

[jcoscia]

Describe the bug
When the playbook is run on Whonix Workstation 16, the Ensure all relay keys exist (LOCAL) task stalls forever.

This is likely because /usr/bin/tor and /usr/sbin/tor are symlinked to a shell script that sleeps forever. The actual tor lives at /usr/bin/tor.anondist-orig This is a Whonix quirk more than a Relayor bug, but it would be nice to automatically detect this and use the correct tor.

Relayor works as expected when /usr/bin/tor is replaced with the tor binary.

To Reproduce
Use Whonix Workstation 16 as a control machine, and run a valid playbook to deploy a new relay.

Expected behavior
Relayor generates keys for a new relay, and continues running the playbook.

Version information (please include the following information):

• ansible version 2.10.8
• ansible-relayor version 22.1.0-rc

Playbook information

• hosts: relays
  vars:
  tor_ContactInfo: "[email protected]"
  tor_signingkeylifetime_days: 4
  tor_nickname: "example"
  tor_AbuseEmailAddress: "[email protected]"
  tor_ExitRelay: True
  tor_ExitPolicy:
  - accept *:119
  - accept *:135-139
  - accept *:445
  - reject *:25
  - accept :
  tor_ports:
  - { orport: 9001, dirport: 80}
  roles:
  • nusenu.relayor

OS information
Target: Debian 11
Control Machine: Whonix Workstation 16 (based on Debian 11.2)

Debug information

[snipped]

TASK [nusenu.relayor : Ensure all relay keys exist (LOCAL)] ********************
task path: /home/user/ansible/roles/nusenu.relayor/tasks/configure.yml:16
Using module file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/modules/command.py
Pipelining is enabled.
<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: user
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python3 && sleep 0'

[nusenu]

Thanks for bringing this up. Can you test the master branch with this setting on Whonix: tor_binary: tor.anondist-orig

[jcoscia]

It works correctly with the new tor_binary var set, thank you!