Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Cannot chmod interface to allow non-root ethereal on Solaris 9

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From: Trebor Sreyb <tsreyb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
I tried to 'chmod +rw' on my network interface on a
Solaris 9 system, but the chmod won't take - no error,
but the file permissions just don't change.

Hence, I cannot run ethereal as non-root user.

Has anybody observed this behavior?


Here's the output. Sorry for the line wrapping.





# uname -a
SunOS slefire 5.9 Generic_112233-05 sun4u sparc
SUNW,UltraAX-i2



# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4>
mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
eri0:
flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu
1500 index 2
        inet 10.1.253.90 netmask ffff0000 broadcast
10.1.255.255
        ether 0:3:ba:2f:ed:72



# ls -l /dev/eri
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         29 Jun 27  2003
/dev/eri -> ../devices/pseudo/clone@0:eri



# ls -l /devices/pseudo/clone@0:eri
crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       11,  8 Jun 27  2003
/devices/pseudo/clone@0:eri



# chmod +rw /devices/pseudo/clone@0:eri



# ls -l /devices/pseudo/clone@0:eri
crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       11,  8 Jun 27  2003
/devices/pseudo/clone@0:eri



		
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