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

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