How do I tell tor, from the command-line, to give me a new identity in a Mac?

Is there a way to ask tor/vidalia for a new identity, via the command-line, as opposed to mousing to the icon, bringing up the menu, and clicking the option there?

I'm running Mac OSX 10.6 and 10.7 with the stable install 0.2.2.32-0.2.14.

Peter Mounce

Posted 2011-08-30T22:37:47.043

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Linux: https://askubuntu.com/questions/499995/change-ip-address-which-is-given-by-tor-using-the-terminal

– Ciro Santilli 新疆改造中心法轮功六四事件 – 2017-12-24T09:07:33.847

Actually, this is probably a dupe of http://superuser.com/questions/138262/how-to-flush-tor-circuit, since you can run a similar command on Mac OSX.

– dsolimano – 2012-01-19T14:43:38.253

Answers

Using this SO answer:

Open a telnet connection to the control port of your Tor service and send it SIGNAL NEWNYM.

dsolimano

Posted 2011-08-30T22:37:47.043

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More details please, I have the same issue. How do i go about finding the control port for Tor Would that be the http port 8118 or the Socks port 9050? – k4t434sis – 2012-05-29T00:43:50.803

Neither - the control port is set in your torrc file, or you can specify it on the command line when you start tor. – dsolimano – 2012-05-29T11:50:15.830