Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal run by non-root under Linux 2.4.x

[Kevin <kem2@xxxxxxx>]

DOH!  Sorry, I am running BSD here
Kevin
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 07:42 PM, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:30:52PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> > > I'd like to set up some boxen so non-root users can run ethereal 
> > > under
> > > Linux 2.4.x.  From the ethereal-users archive, it doesn't look like
> > > there is yet a standard solution for doing this.  I'm considering
> > > setting the sniffer interfaces into promiscuous mode at boot and 
> > > using
> > > a kernel patch to allow non-root users to open raw and packet sockets
> > > a la:
> > >
> > > http://killa.net/infosec/acls/
> > >
> > > Comments?
>
> > There is a simple and clean way to do this.   Go into /dev and give 
> > the
> > desired group read access to all the "files" that start with bpf.
>
> # ls -ld /dev/*bpf*
> ls: /dev/*bpf*: No such file or directory
>
> This is a Linux box.  Linux boxen in general do not have /dev/bpf*
> AFAIK.
>
> - Morty
>
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