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

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping schrieb:
> Stephen Samuel (leave the email alone) wrote:
>
> > Couldn't someone write a 'withnpf' script that starts
> > NPF, runs ethereal and then stops NPF?
> >
> > I realize that you'd still need a 'bare' ethereal for situations
> > where you want to run more than one instance of ethereal, but
> > this would be pretty good for the default situation.
>
>
> Yes it would, but see below.
>
> > Similarly, are there 'start NPF' and 'stop NPF' icons available?
>
>
> Not for now. The possibility to do so was come up just today (at least 
> to my scope of knowledge) ...
>
> Both sounds reasonable.
>
> However, it maybe not that easy getting the current username from a 
> script, as it's somewhat tricky on windows.
>
> For my account that would be something like: %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME%. 
> I'm unsure what it is on non domain (home) environments.
You have to know %username% of a local admin account and its password 
when you run the script as you will be asked for. You don't need your 
own username or password. A basic script would be quite simple. I just 
don't have the time right now.

> On Win9x systems the whole thing might be useless, even runas won't be 
> there and geting the username might differ a lot, too.
Not necessary to develop somthing for WIN OT here. Win OT doesn't know 
anything about user privilegies. So you can't run Ethereal or any other 
program as a non-priviledged process.

Regards,
Lars