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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Using ethereal by non-root linux user

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From: Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:35:33 -0700
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:02 +0200, Johnny Choque wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using ethereal in RedHat linux and all is working well using ethereal
> with root user but I need to use ethereal by non-root user for particular
> reasons. Please someone tell me how to configure my linux box for use
> ethereal with non-root user? I already used sudo but it does not work.

Hi Johnny --

You probably need to allow the selected non-root user to use
ethereal by making an entry in the sudoers file.

See 'man sudoers' for more information. 

Breen

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