[Bug 165314] Review Request: kismet -- A WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS

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Summary: Review Request: kismet -- A WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165314





------- Additional Comments From enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de  2006-03-16 13:37 EST -------
* Thu Mar 16 2006 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.0.2005.08.R1-2
- set *USR and *GRP variables to avoid problems with certain 'install'
  versions

http://ensc.de/fedora/kismet.spec
http://ensc.de/fedora/kismet-0.0.2005.08.R1-2.src.rpm


========


> all the %global stuff is ugly

The %global is required because %define is buggy


> install -o "root" -g "root" -m 755 scripts/kismet
> /var/tmp/kismet-0.0.2005.08.R1-1-root/usr/bin/kismet
> install: cannot change ownership of ...

strange... my 'install' ignores this kind of errors:

| [ensc at kosh kismet]$ install -o root -g man kismet.spec /tmp/
| [ensc at kosh kismet]$ ll /tmp/kismet.spec 
| -rwxr-xr-x  1 ensc ensc 3944 16. Mär 19:13 /tmp/kismet.spec
| [ensc at kosh rpmspecs]$ rpm -qf $(which install)
| coreutils-5.2.1-48.1


> so that one can see from the spec that this is a suid binary

??? There should be no SUID binary in the 'kismet' package


> Also why exactly does kismet need its own user?

See section 6, "Suidroot & Security" in the shipped README


> And why does kismet have /var/lib/kismet as homedir?

kismet stores information about found networks under ~/.kismet (see
the 'configdir' variable in kismet.conf)


> And whats with the gps being disabled with ./configure and then
> packaged as -extras that doesn't make sense?

??? My spec file states

| %configure --enable-ipv6 --sysconfdir=%cfgdir

GPS support won't be disabled there.


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