Thomas Anders wrote: > Richard van der Hoff wrote: >> Personally, I'd much prefer a popup that I can dismiss than wireshark >> meddling with my users/groups and dropping privileges. > > Is there any good example of another *user application* dropping > privileges as proposed by Gerald? After all, Wireshark isn't a system > daemon like OpenSSH's sshd or Postfix where a dedicated "low privilege" > user makes perfect sense, of course.
Is there another example of a program as big as Wireshark that has to (used to have to) be run as root [to do its work "live"]? And whose entire purpose is to capture stuff off (potentially malicious) networks? _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
