Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:39:14 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Adding a 'bpf' group for /dev/bpf* Message-ID: <200204202139.g3KLdEJ80591@orthanc.ab.ca>
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For the benefit of packet sniffers and other things that only want read-only access to /dev/bpf*, what do people think of adding a 'bpf' group for those programs? This allows bpf devices to be read by programs running with an effective gid of 'bpf' instead of the current requirement for an effective user of root. I've been running this way on many of our servers for several months now, and things like snort, tcpdump, etc., are quite happy with it (under stable). --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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