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<V-Spec> hello
<V-Spec> is anyone awake?
<W8TVI> no
<V-Spec> ok...
<V-Spec> can you help me out?
<V-Spec> cant get kismet configured
<W8TVI> why not?
<W8TVI> wait
<W8TVI> before you anwer that, read this webpage then ask you question -> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
<V-Spec> ahaha
<V-Spec> i have read that
<V-Spec> it was interesting
<W8TVI> then read that again and listen this time
<V-Spec> and makes me sound like less of a noob
<W8TVI> you still sound like one
<V-Spec> i know
<W8TVI> then read that again and listen this time
<V-Spec> sigh
<V-Spec> can i just tell you the error and you tell me what you think is wrong?
<W8TVI> no
<V-Spec> why be so difficult
<W8TVI> the error lies between the keyboard and chair
<W8TVI> :P
<V-Spec> sure does
<W8TVI> yours.
<V-Spec> yep
<V-Spec> so can you help me, or dont you want to?
<W8TVI> do I have to get the clue-by-four out? if you keep asking if you can ask a question, I'm going to tell you no.
<V-Spec> ok....
<V-Spec> it sais FATAL: specifying a uid-0 user for the priv drop is pointless. Then Starting ui... then FATAL: Could no connect to localhost:2501
<V-Spec> im using an orinoco based card
<V-Spec> and have that uncomented in kismet.conf
<V-Spec> and have commented up the cisco one
<W8TVI> did you change the user that it runs under in the kismet.conf file?
<W8TVI> and what system are you running on?
<V-Spec> slackware 8.1
<W8TVI> ok, what version of kismet?
<V-Spec> i changed the suiduser=root
<V-Spec> 3.0.1 devel
<V-Spec> or latest devel
<W8TVI> ok, you changed it FROM or TO suiduser=root
<V-Spec> i changed it TO root
<V-Spec> becuse there are no other occounts
<V-Spec> accounts*
<W8TVI> what was it before?
<V-Spec> nothing
<V-Spec> it was empty
<W8TVI> weird....
<W8TVI> hold on
<V-Spec> its commented above (should be normal user)
<W8TVI> then add a user and change it to that user
<V-Spec> ok
<V-Spec> wow
<V-Spec> it said a hell of a lot more stuff than it did
<V-Spec> but still doesnt work


The answer to the question is that you need to put your normal user name and not "root" after "suiduser="
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