Running Kismet

OK, so I was able to install Kismet on openSUSE 11, but I am getting this error message:

stacy-suse:/home/ryan # kismet
Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server…
Waiting for server to start before starting UI…
FATAL: Could not find user ‘your_user_here’ for dropping priviledges. Makesure you have a valid user set for ‘suiduser’ in your config file. See the ‘Installation & Security’ and ‘Configuration’ sections of the README file formore information.

Here is what my /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf looks like:

Version of Kismet config

version=2007.09.R1

Name of server (Purely for organizational purposes)

servername=Kismet

User to setid to (should be your normal user)

suiduser=ryan

ryan is my normal user. I don’t know why it is not working. Any help would be appreciated

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:56:03 GMT
petaganayr <petaganayr@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> OK, so I was able to install Kismet on openSUSE 11, but I am getting
> this error message:
>
> stacy-suse:/home/ryan # kismet
> Server options: none
> Client options: none
> Starting server…
> Waiting for server to start before starting UI…
> FATAL: Could not find user ‘your_user_here’ for dropping priviledges.
> Makesure you have a valid user set for ‘suiduser’ in your config file.
> See the ‘Installation & Security’ and ‘Configuration’ sections of the
> README file formore information.
>
> Here is what my /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf looks like:
>
> # Version of Kismet config
> version=2007.09.R1
>
> # Name of server (Purely for organizational purposes)
> servername=Kismet
>
> # User to setid to (should be your normal user)
> suiduser=ryan
>
> ryan is my normal user. I don’t know why it is not working. Any help
> would be appreciated
>
>

The kismet server must be STARTED as root, it will drop to the specified user
after it sets up the required wireless configurations.

You then use the kismet client (as a regular user) to access and control (to a
degree) the kismet server.

su - root -c kismet

which should start the server as root, then shift to user ‘ryan’ (from above)
and start the client.

Loni


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