["Mordechai T. Abzug" <morty+ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:30:52PM -0400, Kevin 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?

> 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.

# ls -ld /dev/*bpf*
ls: /dev/*bpf*: No such file or directory

This is a Linux box.  Linux boxen in general do not have /dev/bpf*
AFAIK.

- Morty