Re: Running TCPDUMP over a web interface

[Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu () gmail com>]

Dear All,

Thank you for your valuable feedback.

Is this setup were to be done or developed into a commercial product,
how much will the cost be like?


Best regards,
Tek Bahadur Limbu


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Julius <mycommercials.79 () web de> wrote:
> Am 18.09.2011 19:01, schrieb Aaron Turner:
> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, harish badrinath
> > <harishbadrinath () gmail com>  wrote:
> > > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 1:54 AM, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Can you provide further information about how we can go about
> > > > > implementing this setup?
> > >
> > > These are the steps i would follow
> > > (a) First look for a MVC web framework for the language of your choice
> > > If you end up with goahead or microhttpd you would be left with C or
> > > Something like that,
> > > so look for CGIC or a library with similar/more functionality.
> > > (b) Build the UI in HTML+CSS
> > > (c) Make the UI call cgi scripts and/or special URL your web framework
> > > would provide
> > > (d) Test and deploy.
> > >
> > > IMHO you could get better help/suggestions/answers asking in Ruby on
> > > rails or catalyst or django community’s dev-help channel(s).
> > >
> > > If the webserver you deploy with, cant easily handle standard web
> > > frameworks (eg: given above) you would have to tinker with them to
> > > work with the webserver in question, or write your own.
> >
> > He doesn't need to learn a MVC framework... he could write a simple
> > CGI with a little Ajax to have something perfectly useful in a couple
> > of hours.
> >
> > Seriously, just pick up a book on CGI programming in Perl or whatever
> > scripting language of choice or ask someone who has taken a web
> > programming course in college.  This isn't a "hard" problem or
> > specific in any way to tcpdump, it's a pretty simple web programming
> > problem.
> >
> > The only tricky bit is tcpdump needs to run as root and most
> > webservers don't run CGI's as root for security reasons.  The easiest
> > thing is just suid root the tcpdump binary to fix that.  Note: that
> > this has security implications so you may not want to do this on a
> > multi-user system.  Hence I'd copy tcpdump to a special location and
> > do:
> >
> > cp tcpdump tcpdump.root
> > chmod 750 tcpdump.root
> > chown root tcpdump.root
> > chmod u+s tcpdump.root
> > chgrp tcpdump tcpdump.root
> >
> > and then anyone in the 'tcpdump' group can run the tcpdump.root binary
> > without needing to be root.
>
> this can be done with twisted/nevow in python.
>
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