Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tshark installed setuid root?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:09:59 +0100
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:27:34PM -0500, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Should tshark be installed setuid root if you use 
> --enable-setuid-install ?  I thought not but using that option will 
> install both setuid root.  (I thought I had played with the new privsep 
> stuff but apparently I hadn't packaged it up.)

Now that tshark uses dumpcap to do the capturing it doesn't need to run
as root at all.

 ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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