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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2009-09-09 17:36:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2009-09-09 17:36:06 -0700 |
| commit | bb8cce59686f4ebba5aeee3073fb9322ec9ef6f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 32647452ac7732794306d1ee24991aefd205ffb8 | |
| parent | 2212a5838195ac34b6d9f055dadbd3ec0698c467 (diff) | |
Put in a note about the Snow Leopard bug that requires that you have BPF
devices open for writing in order to capture outgoing traffic.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.macosx | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.macosx b/README.macosx index cfda4b8..3dc9211 100644 --- a/README.macosx +++ b/README.macosx @@ -67,3 +67,8 @@ give the administrative users permission to read but not write the BPF devices, you can have the script change the owner to that user, the group to "admin", and the permissions to rw-r-----. Other possibilities are left as an exercise for the reader. + +(NOTE: due to a bug in Snow Leopard, if you change the permissions not +to grant write permission to everybody who should be allowed to capture +traffic, non-root users who cannot open the BPF devices for writing will +not be able to capture outgoing packets.) |