Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Setuid() patch to allow tethereal to run as nobody during cap

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:36:34 -0800

On Oct 21, 2003, at 11:01 AM, Jaime Fournier wrote:


I put together this patch that allows for tethereal to
run as nobody.
If Tethereal is run from the command line, and it's set-uid root, it could just revert to the real user ID - there wouldn't be a need to a "-u" option.
Is the intent here to support running it as a daemon, or something such as that, where the user ID you want it to run as isn't available to it unless you tell it?