Re: Snort priv. drop and chroot before/after changing uid/gid

["Ed Borgoyn (eborgoyn)" <eborgoyn () cisco com>]

Hello Bill,
  Thanks for the Snort improvement suggestion.  We will capture your feature request.
    Ed Borgoyn
    Cisco Snort Development Team


From: Bill Parker <wp02855 () gmail com<mailto:wp02855 () gmail com>>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 5:09 PM
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Subject: [Snort-devel] Snort priv. drop and chroot before/after changing uid/gid

Hi All,

    I ran into an instance where having snort set it's UID/GID before dropping priv/chroot can lead to a problem 
creating a .PID in /var/run, due to user permissions.  I know this behavior was changed in reading the Snort Changelog, 
but perhaps a CLI switch could be added to write PID before changing to user/group, rather than afterwards?

Bill

p.s. - when this happens, the snort script daemon can't find the correct PID to kill is why I'm mentioning it :)

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