Re: unable to start snort

[Shawn Duffy <pakkit () codepiranha org>]

Snort generally should run as an unprivileged user.  So you should create
a user 'snort' and group 'snort' and make sure it has the necessary
permissions to read snort.conf and the rules and so on...

Shawn Duffy, CCNA CCSE
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On Thu, 29 May 2003, Nick Scheider wrote:

> Hi I was wondering if anyone has scene this before.   Could it be
> something wrong with my snortd file?
>  Thanks in advance Nick
>
> [root@d1 root]# ./snortd start
> Starting snort: ERROR: User "snort" unknown
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>                                                            [FAILED]
> [root@d1 root]#
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