Re: [arch-dev-public] Snort UID / GID

2008/7/17 Hugo Doria <hugodoria@gmail.com>:

I've updated the snort package. The package is now working well, but I have a question:

I am creating a snort user and group during the package installation. Should we reserve a UID / GID to it? I think this is important because snort should run with fewer privileges since it can monitor the network, integrate itself with iptables and so on.

For info how to do user/group creation/deletion - see lighttpd (or some other package that is listed in that table). And be sure to add UID/GID to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UID_and_GID_List -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)