Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Superuser???

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From: "Hannes R. Boehm" <hannes@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 20:19:38 +0200
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 03:35:07PM +0100, C Poulkas wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I would like to install the ehtereal anlayzer on a solaris unix system. 
> Do I have to have superuser privileges to do it?
> 
> What about the tcpdump program?

yes.

reading raw packets from a network device requires root privileges.
This is true for tcpdump and ethereal.

Hannes

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