Re: Capturing without having superuser rights

[Max Laier <max () love2party net>]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 17:33:13 Damien ANCELIN wrote:
> As I'm developping on libpcap to provide a metrology plateform, I was
> wondering if there is a manner to enable a specific user (or a specific
> group) to capture from a network interfaces (even in promiscuous mode),
> without using sudo.
> I'm trying to do this with udev, but I'm not shure it can works.
>
> Does anybody have an idea ?

Depends on the platform you are on.  On FreeBSD all you need is read write 
permission to the /dev/bpf* devices.

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