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

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Stephen Samuel (leave the email alone) schrieb:
> I kinda squirm at the thought of loading yet more code into windows
> memory on boot, ehen it's not always used.  I think that the best
> approach would be to have it not loaded by default, but have it
> still be an install-time option (for systems that use ethereal
> rather often).
Thats the way it is. It is an install time option which is off by default.

> 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.

I am aware of this possible security issue. That is why I made it optional.