Re: Libpcap and Super User mode

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jun 30, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Jefferson Ogata wrote:

> More specifically, you can use libpcap as any user. On most systems, 
> you have to be root, however, to monitor traffic on a network 
> interface.

I.e., you can use libpcap to read a capture file as any user (if that 
user has permission to read the capture file in question), but you 
might have to have privileges of some sort (see the tcpdump man page 
for what we believe to be the current set of privileges required on 
various platforms) to do live captures.

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