Create a ToR Relay

Setup Unattended Upgrades

1. Update Repo and Install Unattended Upgrades

#Update repositories

apt update

#install unattended upgrades

apt-get install unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges

2. Configure Unattended Upgrades

#open the config file in nano

nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

Remove this config from the file:

#add this config

Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
  "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security";
  "TorProject:${distro_codename}";
  };
  Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
  };
  
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";

3. Test Unattended upgrades

unattended-upgrade --debug

Install ToR

1. Add Official ToR Repos

#Install prereqs

apt install apt-transport-https

Find your Debian version

cat /etc/debian_version

Create a new sources file

#Create the new file with nano

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list

Add these two repos

replace {yourdistro} with your Debian version

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org {yourdistro} main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org {yourdistro} main

2. Add the GPG Key

wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

3. Install ToR

apt update
apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

Configure ToR

1. Open the ToR Configuration File

nano /etc/tor/torrc

2. Add the following config

## BASE CONFIG

Nickname 
ContactInfo your@e-mail 
ORPort 443 
ExitRelay 0
SocksPort 0

## BANDWIDTH
## The config below has a maximum of 800GB
## (up/down) per month, starting on the 1st 
## at midnight
AccountingMax 800 GB
AccountingStart month 1 0:00

## MONITORING

ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1

3. Enable ToR and Restart

systemctl enable tor
systemctl restart tor

Install Monitoring

## Installing Nyx

apt install nyx

## Run Nyx

nyx