Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: Fwd: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal patch: limit capability set under Linux

[Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to do it the other way round? Usually running
> Ethereal in user level and raise capabilities (somehow like su does it),
> when needed while capturing.

Unless we're talking about different things here, there's no painless 
way to "raise capabilities" -- and that's by intention since it's the 
whole point of dropping (or not having) them in the first place.


+Thomas

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