[Bro] Running Bro NOT as root under Linux

[Robin Sommer]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 15:25 +0200, Christoph Goeldi wrote:

> Does anyone have a clou how to run Bro as a user different than root 
> under Linux?

On Linux, that's not possible without modifying the kernel. However,
if patching the kernel is an option, here's a patch:

     http://www.net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~robin/patches/capture_group.html

(Note that this is an *ugly* hack...)
 
Robin

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