Re: Ethereal rights
Thanks Jeff,
I will try this.
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 13:04, Jeff wrote:
> Joseph Dane, 2002-Jun-06 09:35 -1000:
> > >>>>> "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.
>
> The way I do this is using sudo. I gave myself the NOPASSWORD option
> for ethereal too so make it quicker.
>
> jcx
>
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