Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Run as root not as any other user

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:04:44 -0700 (PDT)
> Set ethereal to be setuid
> 
> chmod +s `which ethereal`
> 
> Note that this could be a security risk.

Yes - see

	http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

It also may not work at all, depending on whether Mandrake 8.0 has GTK+
1.2.9 or later, as the GTK+ folk have, in 1.2.9, changed GTK+ so that
GTK+ programs will simply refuse to run at all if they're set-UID.