kismet can be installed in two ways. The gentoo ebuild available supports the default way of installing it for root (by running make install). This is desirable for multi-user systems. However the alternate method of setting the suid so that it can be run by any user is not currently supported. Since laptops are mostly single-user, this option seems more appropriate. The user should at least be able to pick which one she wants. In order to install it this way, the program needs to be installed using make suidinstall instead of make install
That's a horrible idea security-wise; if you have single-user laptop, just set suiduser to that one user.
(In reply to comment #0) > kismet can be installed in two ways. The gentoo ebuild available supports the > default way of installing it for root (by running make install). This is > desirable for multi-user systems. However the alternate method of setting the > suid so that it can be run by any user is not currently supported. Since > laptops are mostly single-user, this option seems more appropriate. The user > should at least be able to pick which one she wants. > In order to install it this way, the program needs to be installed using > make suidinstall > instead of > make install I won't put that in the tree. If you really intend on using that, maintain an ebuild for that in an overlay.
