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?
Joachim
On tech@ there is thread "non-root tcpdump filtering broken?" dated end of
september last year about this.
/Sigfred
