On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 05:59:23PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > 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?
maybe this thread is still relevant to this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107980404800003&r=1&w=2 -- jared [ openbsd 3.9-current GENERIC ( mar 15 ) // i386 ]
