argus in chroot, privilege seperation/revocation

[Andreas Östling]

I created a patch for argus 2.0.x a long time ago so you can run 
chrooted as non-privileged user/group. I've been planning to 
review/rewrite it for 3.x but I haven't had the time.

http://people.su.se/~andreaso/tmp/argus-drop-privs.diff

/Andreas

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Darren Spruell wrote:

> While I realize some IP-level access control can go a long way, I
> wonder if there is yet support in (or on the way) for argus(8) to run
> as a lower privileged user and/or in a chroot. If not native support
> in argus for chroot, is it easy enough to chroot manually? And if not
> supported yet, has it been a matter of "waiting for patches" or "too
> difficult given the current codebase?"
>
> -- 
> Darren Spruell
> phatbuckett at gmail.com