Giving myself authorization as other users

[tudza]

I installed Tor using the Adept package manager tools.  No problems with the install.

I tried to run Tor from the command line and was warned that user (1000) did not have such priveleges.  So, I did kdesu tor, which warned me that user (0) did not have the correct privileges.

I saw the problem was that neither my user nor the one kdesu acts as (I'd have said root, but it doesn't let me do things that root ought to be able to do on all occassions) were the owners of the Tor stuff, but rather debian-tor was.

I took the crude approach and just sought out all Tor stuff and made it my own.  I would have prefered to run it as user debian-tor since that is what the Tor people suggest, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.  I must not have hit on the correct variation of su debian-tor or whatever or not known what the default password for such a user might be.

What should I have done?