Re: Capturing without having superuser rights

[Robin Sommer <robinsommer () web de>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 18:30 +0200, Max Laier wrote:

> Depends on the platform you are on.  On FreeBSD all you need is read write 
> permission to the /dev/bpf* devices.

A long time ago, I did a hack for Linux which allows to give a
specific group capture permission without becoming root. 2.6.15 was
the last kernel this patch got adapted to, see here:

    http://www.icir.org/robin/patches/capture_group.html
    
Robin    

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