Re: [tcpdump-workers] Privileges on Mac

2009-03-31 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Tobias Weber wrote: libpcap comes with Mac OS, but to use it from GUI applications without changing permissions in /dev is complicated. Nothing unique about Mac OS X here - the situation on *BSD is the same (not surprisingly, as *BSD and Mac OS X both use BPF),

[tcpdump-workers] Privileges on Mac

2009-03-31 Thread Tobias Weber
Hi, libpcap comes with Mac OS, but to use it from GUI applications without changing permissions in /dev is complicated. The OS includes a helper tool which can ask the user for credentials and return a file descriptor opened with root rights. It'd be nice if libpcap could be initialized wi