[Bro] does bro need root privilege?

[Dave Crawford]

I also created a plugin to automate the necessary ‘setcap’ calls during installs/deploys:

https://github.com/PingTrip/broctl-setcap <https://github.com/PingTrip/broctl-setcap>

- Dave
 
> On May 22, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Daniel Thayer <dnthayer at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> The BroControl documentation explains how to run as a normal user:
> https://www.bro.org/sphinx/components/broctl/README.html#using-brocontrol-as-an-unprivileged-user
> 
> 
> On 5/22/17 2:43 PM, Kenneth Goldman wrote:
>> New user, with a Fedora install.
>> 
>> 1 - Starting with the basics.  As a normal user:
>> 
>> [BroControl] > install
>> Error: running "bro -v" failed with output:
>> can't open 'debug.log' for debugging output
>> 
>> Does bro have to run as root?
>> 
>> 2 - Is there an NNTP reflector for this mailing list?
>> 
>> --
>> Ken Goldman   kgoldman at us.ibm.com
>> 914-945-2415 (862-2415)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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