Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problems on OS x 10.3.8

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:53:47 -0800
Michael Tuexen wrote:
Run in the application 'Terminal'

sudo chmod uog+r /dev/bpf?

...or "/dev/bpf*", if there's more than 10 BPF devices (there probably won't be, but...).

That command allows everybody to capture. If you only want yourself to be able to capture, do

	sudo chown {your login name} /dev/bpf*

and if you want, for example, everybody with administrative access to be able to capture, do

	sudo chgrp admin /dev/bpf*
	sudo chmod g+r /dev/bpf*

You have to do this after each restart of the OS.

Or install the ChmodBPF startup item from the current top-of-tree CVS version of libpcap, which will do it after each restart for you.