Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tshark installed setuid root?
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:46:01 -0800
Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:27:34PM -0500, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>> Should tshark be installed setuid root if you use 
>> --enable-setuid-install ?  I thought not but using that option will 
>> install both setuid root.  (I thought I had played with the new privsep 
>> stuff but apparently I hadn't packaged it up.)
> 
> Now that tshark uses dumpcap to do the capturing it doesn't need to run
> as root at all.

TShark is now no longer in the setuid list (leaving only dumpcap). Should there
be additional configure options to set the file ownership and permissions for
dumpcap?