On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Alex B wrote: > Hello. > > When started from user, tcpdump complains: "need root privileges", even if I > want it to read packets from regular file. > Error is located in privsep.c. > It may be more secure to start tcpdump from user to decode packets.
Are you really certain? I've used tcpdump as non-root and ISTR it working fine.
What was the command line you used?
Joachim
