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| author | Stephen Fisher <steve@stephen-fisher.com> | 2008-02-13 05:28:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Stephen Fisher <steve@stephen-fisher.com> | 2008-02-13 05:28:27 +0000 |
| commit | f877c1a57a66c638894e983d00bddc732fdd94ad (patch) | |
| tree | a7d74aec04097be04107a17f4e81eebf3ff73891 /doc | |
| parent | 8f3a1b0d16653c2e6a209680164b39910973e08d (diff) | |
Remove mention of tshark being installed setuid root as it now uses dumpcap.
Also realign the following few sentences.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=24318
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.packaging | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.packaging b/doc/README.packaging index 631ea9a1ab..a729a9b392 100644 --- a/doc/README.packaging +++ b/doc/README.packaging @@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT. There are two configure-time options on non-Windows systems that affect the privileges a normal user needs to capture traffic and list interfaces: "--enable-setuid-install" and "--with-libcap". Setting -"--enable-setuid-install" to "yes" will install TShark and dumpcap -setuid root. This is necessary for non-root users to be able to capture -on most systems, e.g. on Linux or FreeBSD if the user doesn't have -permissions to access /dev/bpf*. It is disabled by default. +"--enable-setuid-install" to "yes" will install dumpcap setuid root. +This is necessary for non-root users to be able to capture on most +systems, e.g. on Linux or FreeBSD if the user doesn't have permissions +to access /dev/bpf*. It is disabled by default. If the "--with-libcap" option is enabled, dumpcap will try to drop any setuid privileges it may have while retaining the CAP_NET_ADMIN and |