vanguards(1)

✨ vanguards(1) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, because this little cutie (vanguards, she's a User Command, July 2018 era, iconic) is about to make your onion services so much safer and honestly? she ate 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

vanguards — extra protections for Tor onion services. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she's the bodyguard your hidden service didn't know it needed 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vanguards [-h] [--state STATE_FILE] [--generate_config WRITE_FILE]
[--loglevel LOGLEVEL] [--logfile LOGFILE] [--config CONFIG_FILE]
[--control_ip CONTROL_IP] [--control_port CONTROL_PORT]
[--control_socket CONTROL_SOCKET] [--control_pass CONTROL_PASS]
[--disable_bandguards] [--disable_rendguard] [--enable_cbtverify]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the whole thing is this: she connects to a Tor process through its control port and then manages, like, additional protections for onion services. extra layers. extra armor. main character energy for your circuits 🔥

and here's every single flag, no skips, no shortcuts, because we do not gatekeep ✨

• -h, --help — shows you the help message and then dips out. simple. iconic.
• --state STATE_FILE — the file where vanguard state gets stored. her little diary 🎀
• --generate_config WRITE_FILE — writes the config out to a file, after applying whatever command args you passed. so it bakes in your choices, slay.
• --loglevel LOGLEVEL — how chatty she is in the logs. your options are DEBUG, INFO, NOTICE, WARN, or ERROR.
• --logfile LOGFILE — log to LOGFILE instead of stdout. giving "put it in my notes app instead" energy.
• --config CONFIG_FILE — where the config file lives that holds your more advanced settings. the deep lore file 🧚
• --control_ip CONTROL_IP — the IP address of the Tor Control Port to connect to. default is 127.0.0.1.
• --control_port CONTROL_PORT — the Tor Control Port to connect to. default is 9051.
• --control_socket CONTROL_SOCKET — the Tor Control Socket path to connect to.
• --control_pass CONTROL_PASS — the Tor Control Port password. it's optional, so no pressure 💜
• --retry_limit RETRY_LIMIT — how many times she'll attempt to reconnect after a failure. default is Infinite, because she does not give up on you, periodt.
• --one_shot_vanguards — sets and writes the layer2 and layer3 guards to torrc, then exits. one and done, in and out, no notes.
• --disable_vanguards — turns off setting any layer2 and layer3 guards.
• --disable_bandguards — disables the circuit side channel checks. heads up: this may help performance.
• --disable_rendguard — disables the rendezvous misuse checks. also may help performance, same deal.
• --enable_cbtverify — enables Circuit Build Time monitoring. she's watching the clock, fr fr ⭐

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• tor(1)
• https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards/blob/master/README.md

lowkey the most important part: this is vanguards, from July 2018, and that's a whole personality. go read the README, bestie, it's right there 👑

mwah 💖 stay safe out there 🦋