On 19/09/18 at 18:47, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 19/09/18 at 14:07, m712 wrote: >> On September 18, 2018 1:31:56 PM GMT+03:00, Alessandro Selli >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I recently installed etherape 0.9.13-1+b1 and found out it could >>> not >>> do anything when run as an unprivileged user: >>> >>> >>> Error opening eth0 : eth0: You don't have permission to capture on that >>> device (socket: Operation not permitted) - perhaps you need to be root? >>> >>> >>> I could find an "EtherApe (as root)" menu item in my desktop's menu >>> under System, but it asks for the superuser's password and I don't like >>> that. >>> >>> I then run the following command as root: >>> >>> >>> setcap CAP_NET_RAW=pe /usr/bin/etherape >>> >>> >>> And i can now run etherape as a regular user without entering the >>> superuser's password or setting the binary SUID root. >>> >>> Could this be make a default setting at package installation, or at >>> least could there be some reference to this setting in the package info >>> and/or in the command man page? >> I agree that this should be a package default, not just here but on Debian's >> side too. Would you like to contact the maintainer or should I? >> >> m712 > > For once I'll put aside my laziness and do it myself. ☺ > > Thank you anyway. > > > Alessandro
OK, Debian package maintainer Frederic Peters asked me to open a new bug. It is bug #910117: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910117 Bye -- Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> VOIP SIP: [email protected] Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE
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