Common Whonix ™ CLI Commands
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Introduction[edit]
There are a number of common command line operations that are performed by users of all skill levels in the Whonix ™ environment. This wiki page is intended to serve as a quick and handy reference guide for locating these, but it is not a substitute for reading relevant wiki entries that provide detailed instructions for various activities. [1] Additional, useful commands will be added here over time.
Whonix-Gateway[edit]
Table: Whonix-Gateway ™ Common Commands
| Category | Commands |
|---|---|
| Change Keyboard Layout |
|
| Circumvent uwt Wrapper Use [2] |
|
| Connection Wizard (Enable/Disable Tor) |
|
| Default Username and Password [3] |
|
| Important Configuration Files / Folders |
|
| Important Logs |
|
| Nyx: Tor Command Line Monitor [4] |
nyx
|
| OS Updates |
|
| Switch to Clearnet User [5] |
|
| sdwdate |
sudo /usr/lib/sdwdate/restart_fresh
|
| Time |
date -u
sudo date -s "17 FEB 2019 24:00:00" && sudo hwclock -w
|
| Tor |
sudo service networking restart
sudo service tor restart
sudo systemctl stop tor@default
anon-info
anon-verify
sudo -u debian-tor tor --verify-config
|
| Virtual Consoles |
|
| VM Operations |
sudo reboot
sudo poweroff
|
| whonixcheck |
whonixcheck
|
| Whonix Version |
cat /etc/whonix_version
|
Whonix-Workstation[edit]
Table: Whonix-Workstation ™ Common Commands
| Category | Commands |
|---|---|
| Change Keyboard Layout |
|
| Circumvent uwt Wrapper Use [2] |
|
| Default Username and Password [3] |
|
| DNS Resolution Functionality Test |
|
| GnuPG (OpenPGP) |
sudo apt-key adv --fingerprint A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
gpg --verify tor-browser-linux64-8.5_en-US.tar.xz.asc tor-browser-linux64-8.5_en-US.tar.xz
|
| HexChat |
hexchat-reset
|
| Important Configuration Folders and Logs |
|
| Leak Test [8] |
|
| Network Restart |
|
| OS Updates / Software Installation |
sudo apt-get install package-name
sudo apt-get -t buster-backports install package-name
|
| Time |
sudo date -s "17 FEB 2019 24:00:00" && sudo hwclock -w
|
| Tor Browser |
Note: Tor Browser can only be started when a graphical desktop environment (DE) such as XFCE is running (Whonix ™ XFCE). At time of writing Tor Browser cannot be run without a running DE (Whonix ™ CLI without a custom installed DE). However, graphical applications such as Tor Browser can be started from command line when a DE is running. [9]
torbrowser
~/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/start-tor-browser --debug
update-torbrowser
|
| Virtual Consoles |
|
| VM Operations |
sudo reboot
sudo poweroff
|
| whonixcheck |
whonixcheck
|
| Whonix Version |
cat /etc/whonix_version
|
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ This entry has been inspired by the relatively unknown
whonixcommand, which already lists common Whonix ™ command line operations. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Experts / debugging only!
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 For both Whonix-Gateway ™ and Whonix-Workstation ™.
- ↑ This is a Tor Controller which runs as a console application.
- ↑ The
whonixDNS notes state:Check if DNS resolution is functional:
- Experts only!
- This is only a summary.
- You normally do not need to manually resolve DNS on Whonix-Gateway.
- Whonix has by default a feature to hide the fact, that you are a Whonix user.
- This will NOT hide the fact that you are a Tor user from your ISP!
-- Hiding the fact, that you are a Tor user, is available as an optional configuration.
- Whonix-Workstations traffic goes through Tors Socks-, Dns- or TransPorts.
- Whonix-Gateway can only send traffic through Tor as well.
-- Whonix-Gateway has no longer a Trans- or DnsPort.
-- For example, apt-get will actually call the uwt wrapper /usr/bin/apt-get.
-- The apt-get uwt wrapper will with help of uwt and torsocks force also Whonix-Gateways traffic through Tor.
-- Thus hiding the fact, that you are a Whonix user.
- Only as either,
- as clearnet user or
- after activation of transparent proxying for Whonix-Gateway
- in /etc/whonix_firewall.d/ or
- after allowing Whonix-Gateways root sending non-Tor traffic in /etc/whonix_firewall.d/
- nslookup check.torproject.org
- Experts only!
- ↑ A non-zero exit codes signifies an error, while
0means it succeeded. - ↑ Also see:
man clock-random-manual-gui
man clock-random-manual-cli
- ↑ See: Leak Tests
- ↑ https://forums.whonix.org/t/tor-browser-on-whonix-workstation-cli/10020/8 [archive]
- ↑ Additionallly in Whonix-Workstation ™, notifications are made regarding OS updates, the Whonix ™ version and news.
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