Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Harsh criticism from the OpenBSD folks

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:24:28 +0200
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:32:09PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> But, as Guy already pointed out, on BSD systems you do
> not need root privileges, only read access to /dev/bpf?
> 
> Isn't that acceptable for the OpenBSD developers?

Good question. That way, the privsep stuff wouldn't be necessary. But
maybe that would be something they'd have to do, while the way they
did it it's just our fault.

 Ciao
    Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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