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author | gerald <gerald@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2008-03-24 16:22:30 +0000 |
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committer | gerald <gerald@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2008-03-24 16:22:30 +0000 |
commit | 6edf6080cf7a1af5a56ee987be5ef57eddb837e3 (patch) | |
tree | 2d988f190e9952759013b044a8cfabd277503fb9 /INSTALL | |
parent | c14cb0af2e843e51a5a7d1edede2604cdf1c4920 (diff) |
dumpcap.c: Fix a typo.
INSTALL: Add entries for libcap.
git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@24722 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -142,10 +142,24 @@ README.win32 for those instructions. 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. + run it. This can be used in conjunction with --with-libcap described + below. Running Wireshark or TShark as root is not recommended. + --without-libcap + By default, if 'configure' finds libcap (the POSIX capabilities + library) dumpcap will be built so that if it is installed setuid + root, it will attempt to retain CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_NET_ADMIN + before dropping root privileges. Use this option to disable this + behavior. + + --with-libcap=DIR + Use this option to tell 'configure' where libcap is installed, + if it is installed in a non-standard location. Note that libcap + (the POSIX capabilities library, sans "p") and libpcap (the + packet capture library, avec "p") are two very different things. + --without-pcap If you choose to build a packet analyzer that can analyze capture files but cannot capture packets on its own, but you |