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Need to run snort as non-root user #296

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GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Mar 24, 2015 · 3 comments
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Need to run snort as non-root user #296

GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Mar 24, 2015 · 3 comments
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Need to run snort as non-root user

Original issue reported on code.google.com by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2013 at 9:16
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Updated nsm_sensor_ps-start as follows:
[ -z "$SKIP_SNORT_ALERT" ] && process_start "snort" "-c $SNORT_CONFIG -u 
$SENSOR_USER -g $SENSOR_GROUP -i $SENSOR_INTERFACE_SHORT -F 
/etc/nsm/$SENSOR/bpf-ids.conf -l $UNI_DIR --perfmon-file $PERFMON 
$SNORT_OPTIONS" "$PID" "$LOG" "snort-$i (alert data)"

Updated nsm_sensor_ps-restart as follows:
[ -z "$SKIP_SNORT_ALERT" ] && $ACTION "snort" "-c $SNORT_CONFIG -u $SENSOR_USER 
-g $SENSOR_GROUP -i $SENSOR_INTERFACE_SHORT -F /etc/nsm/$SENSOR/bpf-ids.conf -l 
$UNI_DIR --perfmon-file $PERFMON $SNORT_OPTIONS" "$PID" "$LOG" "snort-$i (alert 
data)"

Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2013 at 5:10

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Tested by Matt Gregory and GabrielS.

Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2013 at 5:11

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Copied to Stable PPA.

Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2013 at 5:15

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