Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Give user read-only access to eth0?

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From: Jago Pearce <jago25@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:13:38 +0000
Previous solutions don't really fix the problem:

http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/htsearch

I'd like to give a user access to sniffing without allowing them to
trash everything.

Is there a better way of doing this?

http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#capprobunix

... references to the WIKI here but there's no linux section:
http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fCapturePrivileges

And this is already enabled in the kernel:
http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fCaptureSupport