Re: Ethereal rights
Thanks Joseph,
This works.
are there any more permanent solutions so this doesn't have to be done
every time i wish to run ethereal?
-jeff
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 12:35, Joseph Dane wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
>
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