Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal run by non-root under Linux 2.4.x

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From: Kevin <kem2@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:30:52 -0400
There is a simple and clean way to do this. Go into /dev and give the desired group read access to all the "files" that start with bpf. 

Kevin

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 07:09 PM, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:



I'd like to set up some boxen so non-root users can run ethereal under
Linux 2.4.x.  From the ethereal-users archive, it doesn't look like
there is yet a standard solution for doing this.  I'm considering
setting the sniffer interfaces into promiscuous mode at boot and using
a kernel patch to allow non-root users to open raw and packet sockets
a la:

http://killa.net/infosec/acls/

Comments?

- Morty

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