Type-o correction...
NMAP requires root to run, but NMAP requires non-root.... should read: NMAP requires root to run, but NTOP requires non-root.... -- J. Eric Josephson Director of Network and System Operations 978-720-2159 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric_Josephson@ groove.net To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ntop-admin@unip Subject: Re: [Ntop] Please enter the password for the admin user: i.it 04/05/2002 09:00 AM Please respond to ntop The password problem is caused by the change put in about 6 weeks ago. Ntop no longer assumes the default admin password, you need to provide it the first time ntop runs. To do this, drop the "-d" (run in daemon mode) and you will be prompted with a single request for the password. Once you have given it the password, then kill the process and restart it with the " -d". Also, because I ran into this, you may want to be pro-active: If you have NMAP installed, NTOP will use it to fingerprint the target system when you go into details. NMAP requires root to run, but NMAP requires non-root.... You will end up with the following console output from NMAP when you go to get system details... "TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires root privileges which you do not appear to possess. Sorry, dude." Apparently you can set uid NMAP to solve this problem. Here is the set of commands that I used, as provided by Luca 1. chown root:sys /usr/local/bin/nmap (root:sys depends on the OS. do "ls -l <ping path> to see what's the correct owner:group) 2. chmod gou+s /usr/local/bin/nmap -- J. Eric Josephson Director of Network and System Operations 978-720-2159 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Boniforti Flavio" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <boniforti.f@c cc: o-ver.it> Subject: [Ntop] Please enter the password for the admin user: Sent by: ntop-admin@uni pi.it 04/05/2002 06:59 AM Please respond to ntop Hello! As I use the following SHELL SCRIPT I get the message in the Subject line repeated "ad libitum". What is wrong? Thanx... /usr/local/bin/ntop -a /home/ntop/ -d -i eth0,eth2 \ -m 192.168.0.0/24,192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24,192.168.3.0/24,192.168.4.0/24 \ -q -r 120 -u ntop -w 192.168.0.138:3000 -E -M -P /home/ntop/ Boniforti Flavio Informa Srl Via 42 Martiri, 165 28924 Verbania (VB) Tel +39 0323 586216 Fax +39 0323 586672 http://www.co-ver.it/informa _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
