On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:22:04PM -0800, Dan Hain (Work) wrote: > Yes, it requires sufficient privilege to use a raw socket. The actual > line is "if( geteuid() )", so it's not good. The goal was to minimize > the changes to the open source, however if that is not an option here I > can make the changes that are needed.
You could always modify the build sequence to link in an interposer for getuid() that always returns 0, and leave the actual code alone... :^/ But I thought raw sockets require privilege everywhere they are available, so this sounds like a bug in the code that should be reported upstream.
