map777
04-02-2007, 04:51 AM
I've upgraded kismet to 2007.01.R1 and now I cannot start it as root.
I've done a lot of reading and followed examples and docs.
The problem I'm having is when I start kismet it says
FATAL: Could not find user 'your_user_here'.
I have been able to get it working by adding a user, then changing the kismet.conf file to use this user in the suiduser variable, but I wanted to just have user root do everything such as the original install.
I tried installing kismet (from svn) with
# make
# make suidinstall
It says 'kismet has been installed SUID ROOT'.
I've also tried
# make
# make install
I get the same error in both cases, I'm missing something very simple here and I don't know what. I've tried this same procedure on another computer and it works fine.
I've done a lot of reading and followed examples and docs.
The problem I'm having is when I start kismet it says
FATAL: Could not find user 'your_user_here'.
I have been able to get it working by adding a user, then changing the kismet.conf file to use this user in the suiduser variable, but I wanted to just have user root do everything such as the original install.
I tried installing kismet (from svn) with
# make
# make suidinstall
It says 'kismet has been installed SUID ROOT'.
I've also tried
# make
# make install
I get the same error in both cases, I'm missing something very simple here and I don't know what. I've tried this same procedure on another computer and it works fine.