Re: Run as user?

[Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>]

Alberto Gonzalez <albertg () wwjh net> writes:

> > According to the FAQ, the snort tool is supposed to be run as root. Is there any
> > way to run it as a regular user, ie. giving myself permission to read 
> > the stream through eth0?
>
> (root@cerebro)(~) snort -?
> [..snip..]
>
>     -g <gname> Run snort gid as <gname> group (or gid) after initialization
>     -u <uname> Run snort uid as <uname> user (or uid) after initialization
>
> [..snip..]
>
> make sure the logging directory has the proper permissions. And take in 
> mind you won't be able to send a HUP signal. Check the snort-users archive 
> i believe this came up awhile ago.

In Snort 2.0, it will atleast tell you that HUP isn't supported with
chroot :)
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
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