Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] FreeBSD & Running As User

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> Did you also grant the group read rights to all bpf devices?  Does "ls
> -l" reflect this?  I usually granted my user read rights and changed  
> the
> owner to myself.  I would assume doing it with the group would work  
> too,
> but I do not have a FreeBSD box handy with Wireshark on it to test  
> that
> with.

I forget whether that's what I did with my FreeBSD machine, but it's  
definitely what I do with all my OS X machines (unfortunately, OS X's  
devfs doesn't have any way to configure the ownership and permissions  
it gives devices, so you have to do it at boot time with a startup  
item, and that doesn't handle devices created after boot time).