Starting Kismet
Starting Kismet
Kismet can be started normally from the command line, and will run in a small ncurses-based wrapper which will show the most recent server output, and a redirect to the web-based interface.
Kismet can also be started as a service; typically in this usage you should also pass --no-ncurses
to prevent the ncurses wrapper from loading.
An example systemd script is in the packaging/systemd/
directory of the Kismet source; if you are installing from source this can be copied to /etc/systemd/system/kismet.service
, and packages should automatically include this file.
When starting Kismet via systemd, you should install kismet as suidroot, and use systemctl edit kismet.service
to set the following:
[Service]
User=your-unprivileged-user
Group=kismet