On Apr 1, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Tobias Weber wrote:
On 01.04.2009, at 00:47, Guy Harris wrote:
A set-UID program that does what privileged stuff it needs to do
(opening a pcap_t,
(what I've seen is using libpcap in the helper tool only and remote
controlling that from the GUI)
Exactly - li
On 01.04.2009, at 00:47, Guy Harris wrote:
If you're talking about Authorization Services, they suggest using
set-UID programs
(that changed years ago, but no one uses the new way)
A set-UID program that does what privileged stuff it needs to do
(opening a pcap_t,
(what I've seen is usin
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),
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
