On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Ed Young wrote:
> Can I execute chmod to change the /dev/bpf* permissions?
Yes.
> If so, what should they be? 755?
You need to be able to read from the bpf device, so either change the
owner to be your username or group to be a group that you're in and give
read permission to that. I've always preferred the letter syntax: chmod
u+r /dev/bpf* gives user read permission without changing the other
permissions (that's chmod 400 /dev/bpf* for an absolute user read only /
no access for others for the octally inclined).