From 9f93307c53595511adf211c1c94660c24de0c85c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gerald <gerald@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:22:51 +0000
Subject: Expand the setuid text a bit.

git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@24485 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
---
 INSTALL | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'INSTALL')

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e0da16ffca..6f40027721 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -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
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