Re: Conditional compiles

[Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml () gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>
wrote:

> I remember getting (infrequent) questions/requests for building Wireshark
> without the ability to capture.  Usually the desire seems to come from
> corporate IT policies which don't want people capturing corporate traffic
> but which need to support users' ability to analyze captures made elsewhere
> (test systems or maybe from customers?).
>
> [Of course most of these requests are probably for the Windows version
> where you can control the ability to capture by not installing WinPCAP.]
Well... this is a capability issue. I don't think you can prevent your
users to capture by giving them a incomplete version of a software. If they
have the capability of capture, (aka they are root/admin) they can still
capture with a binary copy of the software. If they can't install software
or don't have the proper capability... they are done. I think that mixing
features of a software and capabilities is a bit messy... but maybe there
are specific scenarios I can't understand.

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