Re: Capturing without having superuser rights

[sthaug () nethelp no]

> > As I'm developping on libpcap to provide a metrology plateform, I was
> > wondering if there is a manner to enable a specific user (or a specific
> > group) to capture from a network interfaces (even in promiscuous mode),
> > without using sudo.
> > I'm trying to do this with udev, but I'm not shure it can works.
> >
> > Does anybody have an idea ?
>
> Depends on the platform you are on.  On FreeBSD all you need is read write 
> permission to the /dev/bpf* devices.

And for *capturing* you really only need read permission.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug () nethelp no
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