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.

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