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Re: Capturing without having superuser rights
From: Jesse Kempf <kempf () rpi edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:15:42 -0400
Guy Harris wrote:
For what it's worth, I have systems that are set up with devfs rules (this is on FreeBSD) that grant the group read rights, and assign /dev/bpf* to a group called "bpfreaders". This setup has been running in production for most of the year.On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Max Laier wrote:> Depends on the platform you are on. On FreeBSD all you need is read > write> permission to the /dev/bpf* devices.Also true in NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, and, I think, AIX. (And, at least with some versions of libpcap, all you need is read access if you're just capturing.)
Cheers, -Jesse - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Damien ANCELIN (Oct 15)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Gerald Combs (Oct 15)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Damien ANCELIN (Oct 15)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Max Laier (Oct 14)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Guy Harris (Oct 15)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Jesse Kempf (Oct 15)