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Bug#: 95539
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Mobile Herd <mobile@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Benjamin Smee (strerror) (RETIRED) <strerror@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-06-09 03:17 0000 
Kismet is meant to be run as root and then drops to the UID of the configured
user. The problem is that it requires write access as that user to the
directory that it is started in, causing you to either have to change
configuration settings or to cd to a dir like /tmp before starting it.

I propose that the default configuration file is changed so as to be a little
more friendly.

------- Comment #1 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-09 11:34:25 0000 ------- 
What do you suggest be changed?

------- Comment #2 From Benjamin Smee (strerror) (RETIRED) 2005-06-09 11:59:17 0000 ------- 
Sorry I wasn't more specific, I though you knew what I meant and needed this
bug
more as a reminder :) 

Specifically what I was referring to was the bad default setting of
logtemplate.
I would recommend a minimum change of :
logtemplate=/tmp/%n-%d-%i.%l

but possibly better would be something like
logtemplate=/var/lib/kismet/%n-%d-%i.%l

------- Comment #3 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-13 03:40:20 0000 ------- 
Fixed in net-wireless/kismet-2005.04.1-r1. Thank you for reporting this.
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