Re: [Ethereal-users] Mandrake 7.2 and Ethereal User Privliges

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 07:42:59AM -0800, Palmer C Byrne wrote:
> Installed Ethereal on MD 7.2 and it works great. Only problem must be 
> "root" or SU to "root". What needs to be changed so that ordinary Users can 
> run the program?.

There is a "capability" (CAP_NET_RAW) that, if set for a process, should
allow that process to use SOCK_PACKET and PF_PACKET sockets, at least in
the Linux 2.2.15 kernel, and probably other 2.2.x (and perhaps earlier
and later) kernels.  Those are the mechanisms used to do packet capture
on Linux.

I don't know whether there's any mechanism in Mandrake 7.2 to specify
that certain accounts should be given certain capabilities, however.