[Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 2:00 pm, Liam Whalen wrote:
> Now I have another problem when I run ethereal under my
> user session I get the following error message when I try to start
> listening for packets.
>
> The capture session could not be initiated (socket: Operation not
> permitted).  Please check to make sure you have sufficient
> permissions, and that you have the proper interface or pipe
> specified.
>
> Now it seems to me that I could do xhost +root and then run ethereal
> as root and this problem would go away but is there anyway to give my
> user account permissions to create sockets?  I'm not sure where this
> would be done.

The technology is coming, but is not quite ready. Hence there are no 
tools to control it, and it is switched off in normal kernel builds. 
It's called "capabilities".

I use Ethereal by logging in as a user and then su or sudo to get to 
root. I'm not sure if that is what you are doing.

-- 
Richard Urwin