Private exit node?

[beardstack]

How can someone run a private exit node?

[majestrate]

our docs are still kind of sparse but docs on setting up an exit can be found here:
https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/blob/dev/docs/exit-setup.md

to make it private you can either not share the .loki address and/or require an auth code in order to access.

to make your .loki address require an auth code use the following lokinet config snippet:

[network]
auth-type=file
auth-file=auth.txt

the file at /var/lib/lokinet/auth.txt will be checked for hashed passwords each time you try to authenticate with the .loki address. (make sure that file is readable by the _lokinet user)

passwords are using standard format done by a tool in apache2-utils called mkpasswd which will prompt you for a password and put out a secure hashed and salted value to put into that auth.txt file. you can have as many hashed passwords in that auth.txt as you want, and they each go on their own separate line, no trailing spaces.

[beardstack]

Thanks!