On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:34 PM, J wrote: > Regarding my original post, thanks to Stephen and Guy > for their suggestions but there seems to be no way to > run Wireshark as a non-admin user. What happens when > I try various methods of granting access, specifically > changing ownership of bpf0 by user or group, is that > another device (bpf*+1) is created each time Wireshark > is launched. So if I've changed the permission on > bpf0, bpf1 is created to which I am denied access. > Change bpf1, and the program then looks for device > bpf2. Any FreeBSD Wireshark/Ethereal users have a > solution?
To quote Stephen's reply: > To make these changes permament, you need to modify /etc/devfs.conf > for > next bootup. It is probably best to make the change to devfs.conf > even > if you aren't going to reboot, as each newly created bpf device > inherits > the permissions you give it in that file. Sometimes new bpf devices > are > created on the fly when using capturing tools. If you change /etc/devfs.conf correctly, it will give *all* /dev/bpf* devices the correct permissions when they are created, so that you don't have to change the permissions after they've created. Unfortunately, I'm at work, and don't have my FreeBSD machine handy (and I don't remember whether I preserved my /etc/devfs.conf file when I upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2, so I might have to reconstruct them); I'll try to dig up the /etc/devfs.conf changes for this. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
