[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Webber, R. Marshall wrote:

> When in capture mode as root, my files are being captured to a hog
> partition. My root umask should produce files with 
> rw-r--r-- perms.

...if the application producing the file supplies an initial file mode 
of rw-rw-rw-.  The umask is ANDed with the initial file mode supplied in 
the open() or creat() call to generate the mode used for the file.

Ethereal doesn't - it supplies a mode of rw------- for newly-created 
capture files, so you won't get any mode more permissive than that.

> But all of my capture files are being written as
> rw------- which isn't much use to me. There are several people on the
> system that we want to have access to the captures but not give them
> root to perform the captures.
>
> I looked through the FAQs, the .ethereal config file and and docs I
> could lay my hands on..nothing.
>
> Is this configurable?

No.  You'll have to change the permissions and/or ownership of the 
capture file after the capture is done.