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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:21:55 -0500, Jonathan Rickman <jrickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can run snort as a non-root user by using the -u parameter. This
> makes snort run as an unprivleged user after root kicks the if into
> promisc mode. Anyone exploiting snort after it's started this way will
> not be able to use any root privs, but if they are pretty good they
> might be able to use the existing socket unless their original exploit
> caused snort to fail.
> 
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> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:06:55 -0500, Bob Toxen
> <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:49:14PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > In practice, is Snort run *on* an Internet-facing Web server or does one
> > > run Snort on a dual-homed machine *in front of* a Web server?  Can
> > > anyone hold court on the subject?
> > It depends!  It depends on what level of security is desired and what
> > one's budget is?  Snort generally runs set-UID to root and there have
> > been remote root vulnerabilities -- as I recall.
> >
> > For highest security, one's Firewall/IDS/IPS should be separate from what
> > it detects.  This is in case there is a remote vulnerability on the
> > Firewall/IDS/IPS software but not on the server software behind it.
> >
> > > Jeff
> >
> > Bob Toxen
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