Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Yet another libcap question....
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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:18:10 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Gerald Combs wrote:

[libpcap clipped]
>
>
> BTW, do any popular Linux distributions support file system capabilities
> out of the box yet?  It'd be nice to be able to grant CAP_NET_RAW to
> Wireshark/TShark instead of having to run as root.  Capabilities have
> been in the kernel for a few years now, after all...

The Debian patch set does this in 04_drop-capabilities.dpatch for a long
time already.

Thanx,
Jaap