On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:46:04PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > New greyhatpak is out. I added kismet. > [snip] > First, nothing is setuid root, -but- you must run them as root. I hate setuid > root things. Thanks to poptix and #kismet I was able to make it all work without > setuid root on the binaries. > Nothing has ever been, or ever will be setuid in the kismet distribution: [root at tranq bin]# ls -l kismet* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2028 Sep 18 08:04 kismet -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 540476 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_curses -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46604 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_hopper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5168 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_monitor -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 387864 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_server -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4061 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_unmonitor you have to start it as root because it puts the interface into promiscious mode. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203