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

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From: Jaime Fournier <ober@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:28:10 -0600 (CST)
Maybe a silly question but
isn't the fact we drop, or atleast we use to drop
the credentials of root after the capture device was opened.
I had submitted a patch to allow it to actually change it's
effective uid to nobody.

Seems to me to resolve the issue.
But again I could be off here.

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Lars Roland wrote:


Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:42:26 +0100
From: Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Priv sep in ethereal

Mark Pizzolato schrieb:
(snip)
The ethereal windows installer could probably be offer an option to enable the starting of NPF at system startup. This would completely solve privilege separation for Windows and avoid the overhead of attempting to do these things in a separate process and pass all data to a display process.
I've checked in a change to the installer. The option to start the NPF at system startup is disabled by default. Should it be enabled by default? 

Regards,
Lars

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