[Liam Whalen <lwhalen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Richard Urwin wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 2:00 pm, Liam Whalen wrote:
> > 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.
>

Yes, I am su'ing to root then running ethereal.  Which is fine.  But
inorder to do that I have to run xhost +localhost inorder to give root
permission to run on my display.  I have tried xhost +root but it doesn't
work.  giving localhost permission to write to my display isn't that big
of a deal as I am the only one using my display at the moment.

Liam