snort file permissions

tomm1111 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 94

I have installed snort on my system and *almost* all the files and directories have snort:101 as the permissions. Is this normal?

This has caused some access issues and I have to chown some files and directories.

Tom

zerb · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject:

What files and directories? If it is /etc/snort and /var/log/snort it shouldn't be a problem and is actually meant to be like that for snort to be able to drop priviliges to the user snort after startup.

tomm1111 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 94

By all files and directories, I mean that as it states.

"Almost all non-root specific files and directories on my system have snort:101 permissions"

Is this normal after one installs snort?

zerb · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

Umm, no. And it really sounds scary.

tomm1111 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 94

It sure does. Thanks. I will be doing some large scale chown(ing)