Re: [Wireshark-dev] Security Consideration: Priviledge Separation

2006-10-11 Thread Guy Harris
CS Lee wrote: > So since wireshark needs root priviledge for initial launch, ...unless you're running on an OS (such as anything using BPF) where you can grant non-root users privileges to capture packets. > maybe we > can have wireshark drop its priviledge to other user(wireshark user > mayb

[Wireshark-dev] Security Consideration: Priviledge Separation

2006-10-11 Thread CS Lee
Gentle people, I know lots of wireshark users always prefer to have new protocol parsers or decoders added, while everytime when new stuffs added, it will add excitement of it since it becomes more and more feature rich, however since we all know that wireshark or previously ethereal has lots of s