(RADIATOR) security question with separate account running radiator

[Bret Jordan]

Please look at the documentation we are doing at 
http://utahgeeks.sourceforge.net for an example of securing radiator in 
the exact way you mention.

Bret

Foo Donald (Products O2) wrote:

>Hi there,
>I have some question about the security in radiator.
>
>1. I want to to use a separate account to run radiato, this is what I'd
>done.
>  a. create a new account call "radadmin"
>  b. change the radiator home directory (chown -R radadmin /radiator) and
>log file (chown -R radadmin /var/log/radiator) owner to radadmin
>  c. start the radiator.
>The Radiator looks ok when running with the new account. Anyone has the
>experience with this or met any problem before?
>
>2. The only problem is the SNMP Agent not up when I start, as I remember the
>SNMP agent file was installed with root, Any idea on this?
>
>Error:
>  creating socket: Permission denied
> at Radius/SNMPAgent.pm line 518
>Thu Jul  3 16:30:50 2003: ERR: Could not open SNMP Agent port 161 on
>0.0.0.0:
>
>Regards,
>Donald
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