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Re: Packet sniffing & regular users



also sprach Scott Edwards <supadupa@gmail.com> [2005.03.02.2026 +0100]:
> > I'd like to give regular users the ability to sniff packets (and
> > possibly drop the NIC into promiscuous mode?), without having to deal
> > with sudo or su. How could I go about doing this? And if you provide a
> > solution, what sorts of security concerns does it present, aside from
> > the obvious "anyone can see anything" sort of concern?
> 
> Sounds like a job for user-mode-linux.

Sounds like overkill.

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