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Re: Capturing without having superuser rights
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:21:58 -0400
"Damien" == Damien ANCELIN <damien.ancelin () ens-lyon fr> writes:
Damien> As I'm developping on libpcap to provide a metrology Damien> plateform, I was wondering if there is a manner to enable a Damien> specific user (or a specific group) to capture from a Damien> network interfaces (even in promiscuous mode), without using Damien> sudo. I'm trying to do this with udev, but I'm not shure it Damien> can works. It depends upon your operating system. I don't know what "metrology plateform" is. One some systems, (Solaris? BSD?) a chown/chgrp/chmod on some magic /dev file does the trick, on others (Linux), I don't think there is a way to avoid root. -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [ - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
Current thread:
- Capturing without having superuser rights Damien ANCELIN (Oct 14)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Max Laier (Oct 14)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights Robin Sommer (Oct 14)
- Re: Capturing without having superuser rights sthaug (Oct 14)
- 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)