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

["John J. LeMay Jr." <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>]

** Reply to message from Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 8 Nov 2000
01:28:37 -0800


> Yes, and I think John forgot to supply all of the information in his
> reply:
> 
> 	chown root /*/ethereal
> 	chown root /*/tethereal


I had made an assumption that I shouldn't have - that the code was compiled
locally and "make install" was run as root, which is how I always handle
installs and upgrades. Had this been the case, the owner of both files would
already have been root. Sorry!

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.