Re: Run as user?

[Joe Hill <joehill () sympatico ca>]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 01:11:50 -0500 (EST)
Erek Adams <erek () snort org> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Joe Hill wrote:
>
> > sorry, what I meant was to actually run snort without first su'ing to root.
>
> Not unless you login as root.
well, I'm not *that* much of a noob ;)

> > is there any way to do this and have access to eth0?
>
> Only if you change permissions on your interface device so that the snort
> user/group can access it.

well, I'm a proud member of that group. I cannot find how to give that group perms on the device though. It's not in 
/dev...or /proc...where could it be?
> > when I run snort, it says it will write to /var/log/snort, but I find no such directory or file.
>
> mkdir -p /var/log/snort
done
> > ie. to kill the process?
>
> No.  Sending snort a HUP will force it to 'restart' and 'reload'.  If you
> change permissions on the device, you will be able to HUP it.
cool
> > I must admit, I only went back about 20 pages...;)
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=snort-users&r=1&w=2
>
> Has a rather nice search feature.  :)
thanks!
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