Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5228] tshark: Couldn't load module /opt/iexpress/wireshark
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:02:49 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5228

--- Comment #6 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-09-21 13:02:46 PDT ---
According to

    http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-0554/5992-0554.pdf

"When Security Containment product version B.11.23.01 or later is installed, HP
DLPI is aware of the individual privileges that are relevant for operations on
networking links, namely:
• PRIV_NETPROMISCUOUS
   The PRIV_NETPROMISCUOUS privilege lets you enable or disable promiscuous
mode for DLPI.
   See “DL_PROMISCON_REQ” on page 85 and “DL_PROMISCOFF_REQ” on page 87"

so if you have that installed, even root might not be allowed to turn on any
flavor of promiscuous mode unless they have that privilege, although

    http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/privileges.5.html

speaks of it as one of "the privileges that provide the powers associated with
a process that has an effective user ID of zero", so perhaps root should, in
theory, have those privileges.

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