Re: Listen command

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:41:11PM -0000, Cristiano Tavares - SP wrote:
> After instaling all the software for ax25 why does the LISTEN command works with root and does not work with my normal user?
> 
> I get a error message like:

Non-root users aren't allowed to grab all packets on the AX.25 socket,
just like all users aren't allowed to run tcpdump to get all packets on
ethernet.

> Is there any group I must add my normal user?
> Which one?

I don't think Debian has listen set up like that. You can make it suid
root though which would allow anyone to run it. Or suid root, belonging
to a group of your choice without execute permission for others.

I don't know if a permission change would be preserved when you upgrade
the package next though.

Hamish
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