Re: [Ethereal-users] Using ethereal by non-root linux user

[LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Beware that using sudo gives root privileges to the ethereal process,
that at the very least allows users to overwrite system files. A
sophisticated atacker might even use it to read files.

I personally do not know linux well enough to tell you whether there's
a better way to do it.

Googling I found http://killa.net/infosec/acls/ which might help.

With BSD's you can change /dev/bpf* permissions, on Solaris you can do
so with /dev/qfe* (or whatever type of interface you are using) so
allowing users to go into promiscous mode without giving them root
access.

On Apr 7, 2005 4:35 PM, Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:02 +0200, Johnny Choque wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using ethereal in RedHat linux and all is working well using ethereal
> > with root user but I need to use ethereal by non-root user for particular
> > reasons. Please someone tell me how to configure my linux box for use
> > ethereal with non-root user? I already used sudo but it does not work.
> 
> Hi Johnny --
> 
> You probably need to allow the selected non-root user to use
> ethereal by making an entry in the sudoers file.
> 
> See 'man sudoers' for more information.
> 
> Breen
> 
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