Re: Ethereal rights
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Johnson <comfrey@attbi.com> writes:
Jeff> I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the
Jeff> permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a root
Jeff> console and X cannot open display.
one way of doing this is
* as non-root owner of the X session, do
xauth extract /tmp/auth :0.0
* as root, do
xauth merge /tmp/auth
export DISPLAY=:0.0
ethereal
note that if the /tmp/auth file is publicly readable, then anyone on
the local system can hijack your X server.
--
joe
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