2009/3/25 Walt Scrivens <wa...@gate.net>: > I would have thought that setting the User and Group permissions to "777" in > /etc/passwd would give the kismet user all permissions in all files, but I > guess not.
777:777 in /etc/passwd was the user id and gid, not the permissions; not a good example on my part as I realise it can look like a umask kismet normally drops privileges and runs as nobody, but in your case I presume you've told it to run as user kismet; either way you need to be sure it can write to the log directory, so "chmod ugo+rw /var/log/kismet", or "chgrp kismet /var/log/kismet ; chmod g+ws /var/log/kismet" would be ideal on a ext2/3 partition. if it's a mounted flash card with fat filesystem, then don't trust the reported file and directory protections, it can be misleading according to the uid of the mount you should be able to become the kismet user and check access thus # su -s /bin/bash kismet # touch /mnt.card.kismet/testfile _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
