Suricata » Suricata-Update

When running with insufficient permissions, the default updating is kind of ok:

$ ./bin/suricata-update --suricata-conf ../suricata/suricata.yaml --suricata ../suricata/src/suricata
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Using data-directory /var/lib/suricata.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Using /etc/suricata/rules for Suricata provided rules.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Found Suricata version 5.0.0-dev at ../suricata/src/suricata.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Loading ../suricata/suricata.yaml
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Disabling rules with proto modbus
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Disabling rules with proto enip
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Disabling rules with proto dnp3
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Warning> -- Source index is older than 2 weeks. Please update with suricata-update update-sources.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Fetching https://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/suricata-5.0.0/emerging.rules.tar.gz.
 100% - 2461714/2461714
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:12 - <Error> -- Failed to copy file: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/var/lib/suricata/update/cache/1168f1cf2d4676c8d507bbb6ea3b2078-emerging.rules.tar.gz'

Although I would have expected an error sooner, like right after

5/10/2019 -- 08:08:06 - <Info> -- Using data-directory /var/lib/suricata.

But when doing the update-sources command things get more ugly:

$ ./bin/suricata-update --suricata-conf ../suricata/suricata.yaml --suricata ../suricata/src/suricata update-sources
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:34 - <Info> -- Using data-directory /var/lib/suricata.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:34 - <Info> -- Using /etc/suricata/rules for Suricata provided rules.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:34 - <Info> -- Found Suricata version 5.0.0-dev at ../suricata/src/suricata.
5/10/2019 -- 08:08:34 - <Info> -- Downloading https://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/rules/index.yaml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bin/suricata-update", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(main.main())
  File "/home/victor/dev/suricata-update/suricata/update/main.py", line 1512, in main
    sys.exit(_main())
  File "/home/victor/dev/suricata-update/suricata/update/main.py", line 1285, in _main
    return args.func()
  File "/home/victor/dev/suricata-update/suricata/update/commands/updatesources.py", line 50, in update_sources
    with open(local_index_filename, "wb") as outobj:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/var/lib/suricata/update/cache/index.yaml'

Observed on 1.1.0rc1.