[Bro] [Not] Running Bro as root?

[Jim Mellander]

Please see
https://www.bro.org/documentation/faq.html#how-can-i-capture-packets-as-an-unprivileged-user
which should address your concerns.

Take care,

Jim


On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Drew Dixon <dwdixon at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> So from what I understand it is not at all a trivial task to get bro to
> properly run/function under a user account other than root (Linux
> [RHEL/CentOS]).
>
> Just mostly out of curiosity, I was wondering if anyone had taken on this
> task and are successfully running bro in production under a non-root user
> account?  Further, has anyone perhaps automated/scripted some/all of the
> changes required in order to move bro to run as a non-root user account
> without issue?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Drew
>
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