Package: honeyd Version: 1.0-4 Severity: normal The section below has been copied out of the README.Debian file that ships with honeyd. It appears to be inconsistent. The first section says the default configuration in debian uses the honeyd user. The next section says that it runs as nobody/nogroup. Based on the shipped configuration file it appears that the later is actually the way things are setup.
- run honeyd as a non-root user. The default configuration for honeyd in Debian uses the 'honeyd' user. - run the scripts as a user with very low privileges. This is done by modifying the default template provided with honeyd. Debian's default template has: set template uid 65534 gid 65534 If you do run it as a low user you will have to grant it access to the log files in order for honeyd to properly work. Otherwise, no logfile will get written and honeyd might abort when trying to do so. Depending on user demand, honeyd might be configured in the future to run in Debian as its onw user ('honeyd') this is, however, not yet implemented. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages honeyd depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdumbnet1 1.8-1.3 A dumb, portable networking librar ii libevent1 1.0b-1.1 An asynchronous event notification ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level pa ii libreadline5 5.0-10 GNU readline and history libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]