Quoting Matthew S. Hallacy (poptix at techmonkeys.org):
> Nothing has ever been, or ever will be setuid in the kismet distribution:

(* sigh *)

In the official .spec from cvs:

%attr(4755,root,root) /usr/bin/kismet_server

That is setuid root. I even talked on #kismet and main developer said it should
be setuid root.

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