Re: GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On May 1, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Mohana Sai <mohanasai.26 () gmail com> wrote:

> I am little confused about this project. What requirements the project doesn't meet if we use any of these 2 methods
>
> By simply adding ACL?

Adding an ACL to what?

> By separating the code in to privileged part and unprivileged part and using DBus to communicate the privileged part 
> with unprivileged one ?

It won't work on systems that don't have D-Bus by default, so it means Wireshark would have to include and install a 
full-blown implementation D-Bus on, for example,

        1) the platform on which I think most downloads of Wireshark run

and

        2) the highest-volume desktop Unix.

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