I put together a port based on Matt's previous port that works on -current and should work on 3.8.
It replaces all the steps in the instructions.

Let me know how it works.

http://www.linbsd.org/ethereal.tgz


-Ober

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Matt Jibson wrote:

You might be interested in modifying the port I wrote for 0.10.12:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=112616679314867&w=2

On 12/28/05, ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK I have put together instructions for compiling ethereal 0.10.14 on
-current/3.8.

In the included patch I have added code to ethereal, and tethereal to
change call setuid(uid_t nobody) after the capture device has been opened.
So once a capture has been made, the dissectors won't be running with not
be running with root privs.

Now I understand this is not full privsep in the manner done in
tcpdump(1), and npt, however I am current working on that, and hopefully
can have a port ready for testing shortly.

Here is an example session.
# ethereal

^Z[1] + Suspended            ethereal
# bg
[1] ethereal
!CAPTURE STARTED HERE FROM GUI
# ps auxwww|grep ethereal
root     25479  3.7  4.9 17672 25536 p0  S     12:08AM    0:01.27 ethereal
nobody   13239  3.1  3.9  4792 20152 p0  S     12:09AM    0:00.33
ethereal-capture -i em0 -f not (tcp port 31944 and ip host 192.168.0.34
and tcp port 22 and ip host 192.168.0.200) (ethereal)
# ps auxwww|grep ethereal
root     25479  1.9  4.9 17680 25544 p0  S     12:08AM    0:01.44 ethereal
nobody   13239  0.6  3.9  4792 20152 p0  S     12:09AM    0:00.33 
ethereal-capture -i em0 -f not (tcp port 31944 and ip host 192.168.0.34 and tcp 
port 22 and ip host 192.168.0.200) (ethereal)
!CAPTURE STOPPED AND DECODING OF CAPTURE TRACE BEGUN
# ps auxwww|grep ethereal
nobody   25479  4.4  5.5 30584 28668 p0  S     12:08AM    0:02.44 ethereal


Now this I have been told can be broken out of, and is not as secure as
true privsep.

But I would like to think it buys me more than just running it with
constant full root privs.

Flames and comments welcome.

And finally the url
http://www.linbsd.org/http://www.linbsd.org/ethereal_on_openbsd38.html


-Ober

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