Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Mandrake 7.2 and Ethereal User Privliges

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From: "John J. LeMay Jr." <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 07:23:31 -0500
** Reply to message from Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 8 Nov 2000
01:28:37 -0800


> Yes, and I think John forgot to supply all of the information in his
> reply:
> 
> 	chown root /*/ethereal
> 	chown root /*/tethereal


I had made an assumption that I shouldn't have - that the code was compiled
locally and "make install" was run as root, which is how I always handle
installs and upgrades. Had this been the case, the owner of both files would
already have been root. Sorry!

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.