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| author | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2008-02-27 01:22:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2008-02-27 01:22:51 +0000 |
| commit | b202480fd8a155fe8f344765c0f80ffe5c1ef70a (patch) | |
| tree | b1cfe1490a80cabe8acdba32b46d277c1df86cec /INSTALL | |
| parent | a2b19b3603f1cb955f9fd37d31c849fa7599997d (diff) | |
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Expand the setuid text a bit.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=24485
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@@ -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 |