Why not set the suid bit on the tcpreplay executable? eg. sudo chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/tcpreplay
or am I missing something? James Bergeron wrote: > Thanks that 0 thing works :) > > Now to convince everyone else this is a good idea ;) > > Aaron Turner wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:25 AM, James Bergeron >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks, unfortunately. >>> 1) won't work ... well it would work but I'm running a process within a >>> process that can't be run as root. >>> 2) Had my hopes up to find I have no /dev/bpf >>> 3) Yeah can't do that :( >>> >>> Is there a way to make a user have the same privledges as root without doing >>> a sudo? >>> >> >> Sure, edit /etc/passwd and set their userid to 0. But then you ARE root. >> >> Look, you can't have it both ways. Linux/*BSD/OS X/Solaris/etc >> require you to be root in order to send raw frames (well BSD you can >> work around it by changing the perms on the /dev/bpf devices). So you >> either run tcpreplay as root (via su, sudo, etc) or you hack your >> kernel to remove this restriction. >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tcpreplay-users mailing list > Tcpreplay-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcpreplay-users > Support Information: http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/wiki/Support ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tcpreplay-users mailing list Tcpreplay-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcpreplay-users Support Information: http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/wiki/Support
