Re: Snort permissions problem

[neil <neil () bellsimons com>]

in your snort.conf look for:
(/etc/snort/snort.conf)

output database: log, mysql, user=snort password=password dbname=snort
host=localhost

Set your user:pass 

-Hope it helps

Neil
Roxcor Technologies
www.pheusion.com

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 08:30, Jason Humes wrote:
> Sorry for the newb question...but after trying to implement the database
> archiving detailed in the recent posts to this forum..I can no long start
> snort due to the following error:
>
> ERROR: database: mysql_error: Access denied for user: 'snort@localhost'
> (Using password: YES)
>
> I've seen this before when doing mysql queries...but how can I fix this for
> snort?  thanks
>
> Jason D. Humes
>  
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