Setting Kismet "suid" enquiry

[imported_charlescywong]

Last time, I was asking about the Wireless NIC in "Got problems on the BT3 detecting my wireless card"... Now the problem is solved. I have bought the Hawking KWU8DD usb wireless adaptor and I have to right click on the icon on the bottom right of the VMWare to set the wireless adaptor "disconnect from the laptop virtually and connect to the VMWare virtually". Then BT3 can now detect my wireless adaptor.

I have read the documentation on kismet offical website ... It said :

"Set up the target suiduser. This is the user that Kismet will drop
to after it sets the cards in monitor mode and attaches to them. See
the section 'Suidroot & Security' for more information. If this is
not set correctly, Kismet won't start.
This is controlled by the 'suiduser' directive."

However I am still confused .......
I am still woundering what should I set in the suiduser value...suiduser=???
Do I have to set up another user??? and how can I do it...?
What should I do???

[imported_charlescywong]

PROBLEM: Fatal error about being unable to find the suiduser
Kismet drops the privileges of the main packet processor to a specified
user for security - handling hostile remote data as root is just a bad
idea. If a nonexistent user is specified, Kismet will bail.
FIX: Set a valid user as the suiduser config variable. If you're sure you
don't want privilege dropping, you can run configure with the
'--disable-setuid' option, but this is NOT reccomended for most users.


But how to set a valid user as the suiduser config variable??? in BT3???

[theprez98]

Last time, I was asking about the Wireless NIC in "Got problems on the BT3 detecting my wireless card"... Now the problem is solved. I have bought the Hawking KWU8DD usb wireless adaptor and I have to right click on the icon on the bottom right of the VMWare to set the wireless adaptor "disconnect from the laptop virtually and connect to the VMWare virtually". Then BT3 can now detect my wireless adaptor.

I have read the documentation on kismet offical website ... It said :

"Set up the target suiduser. This is the user that Kismet will drop
to after it sets the cards in monitor mode and attaches to them. See
the section 'Suidroot & Security' for more information. If this is
not set correctly, Kismet won't start.
This is controlled by the 'suiduser' directive."

However I am still confused .......
I am still woundering what should I set in the suiduser value...suiduser=???
Do I have to set up another user??? and how can I do it...?
What should I do???

PROBLEM: Fatal error about being unable to find the suiduser
Kismet drops the privileges of the main packet processor to a specified
user for security - handling hostile remote data as root is just a bad
idea. If a nonexistent user is specified, Kismet will bail.
FIX: Set a valid user as the suiduser config variable. If you're sure you
don't want privilege dropping, you can run configure with the
'--disable-setuid' option, but this is NOT reccomended for most users.


But how to set a valid user as the suiduser config variable??? in BT3???

Recompile Kismet with the --disable-setuid option.

[imported_charlescywong]

Recompile Kismet with the --disable-setuid option.

Thanks for reply. After I recomplie it using the disable setuid option, it still gives me error...

FATAL: SetIFFlags: Unknown interface eth1: Connection timeout

ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Connection timed out

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iwconfig

eth1  IEEE802.11b/g ESSID: off/any Nickname:"zd1211"
        Mode: Monitor    Access Point: Invalid
        Encryption key: off
        Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
        Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
        Tx excessive retires:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

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However when I do ifconfig, it only appear eth0 and l0, but not eth1...
Is there any problem on my wireless USB adaptor setting??
I am using Hawking HWU8DD
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[kismet.conf]

suiduser=root

source=zd1211,eth1,zd1211

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Is that correct??? Or what can I do??

[imported_charlescywong]

I also got the following error after I restart BT3 when I launch kismet

FATAL: Prism2 open bind() failed. (No such file or directory)

What is that means??

[Barry]

I also got the following error after I restart BT3 when I launch kismet

FATAL: Prism2 open bind() failed. (No such file or directory)

What is that means??

Probably means you didn't edit you kismet.conf file.

[imported_charlescywong]

Probably means you didn't edit you kismet.conf file.

Problem solved! Just discover that, don't know why..., there is one extra line on the bottom of the kismet.conf...
That line is about source="something", "something", "something"

Don't know why there is an extra line there...>.<
Anyway , after I delete that line, then the kismet works fine!

Thank you very much for everyone here to help me! Thanks!