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author | gerald <gerald@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2008-02-27 01:22:51 +0000 |
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committer | gerald <gerald@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2008-02-27 01:22:51 +0000 |
commit | 9f93307c53595511adf211c1c94660c24de0c85c (patch) | |
tree | b1cfe1490a80cabe8acdba32b46d277c1df86cec /INSTALL | |
parent | 2f23034cbe4f7b85dd6b052dd14629d3fd2d9127 (diff) |
Expand the setuid text a bit.
git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@24485 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
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-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -138,7 +138,13 @@ README.win32 for those instructions. use this switch. --enable-setuid-install - Use this switch to install dumpcap as setuid. + Wireshark and TShark rely on dumpcap for packet capture. Setting this + flag installs dumpcap with setuid root permissions, which lets any user + on the system capture live traffic. If this is not desired, you can + restrict dumpcap's permissions so that only a single user or group can + run it. + + Running Wireshark or TShark as root is not recommended. --without-pcap If you choose to build a packet analyzer that can analyze |