Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Priv sep in ethereal

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Stephen Samuel (leave the email alone) wrote:

> I realize that the code may not be all that big, but when
> deciding policies, my backup thought is 'what would happen if
> *everybody* did this?"  Besides, if it adds capabilities for
> non-priveledged processes, some people might consider this to
> be a security issue.

That's the important point IMHO.

An administrator might not want users to capture from the network (for 
whatever reason), so it should not enable this feature "accidentially" 
as a default option.

Regards, ULFL