Change IP Address – How to Change IP Address Provided by Tor Using Terminal

In order to run tor with all the connections you need to configure tor and polipo. See Tor check failed though Vidalia shows green onion for configuring tor and polipo. Basically what you need to do is configure manual proxy in your network settings and apply it system wide after that. I guess that will work.

Usually software which is called from your shell doesn't know about about Tor or any other proxy. So you have to tell it. The bad thing is that many software has specific ways to set a proxy up. Below you find some ways to get Tor working on commandline. I assume that you run a combination of Tor and Privoxy at the IP address 127.0.0.1 and port 8118. This might not true in your case. So you should enter the correct values.

Proxy environment variable

There is a special environment variable which is respected by some shell software. Open your .bashrc (or other shell rc file) and enter the following lines.

export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
export https_proxy=${http_proxy}
export HTTP_PROXY=${http_proxy}
export HTTPS_PROXY=${http_proxy}

Applications like wget, GnuPG and curl are known to respect those values.

torsocks

Torsocks is a helper software with re-routes all requests through Tor. Just prepend the software to any command line call.

torsocks your-shellscript
torsocks wget http://example.org

Furthermore you can also use tor-resolve to get an IP address through Tor.

tor-resolve example.org
torsocks ssh $(tor-resolve my.server.example.org)

SSH

If you're using SSH, you can edit your $HOME/.ssh/config.

Host *
     ProxyCommand socat STDIO SOCKS4A:127.0.0.1:%h:%p,socksport=9050

This setting sends every SSH connection through Tor. However the keyword Host in ssh_config allows you to set it up for special hosts. Please have a look at the manpage of ssh_config.

Further ressources

The TorifyHOWTO at Torproject.org has advice for setting up different services. The toraliases might also give some hints and has a setup for IPtables.