From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: Listen root only Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:16:52 +1000 Message-ID: <20050716021652.GA4343@cloud.net.au> References: <620c9057050715180279131307@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <620c9057050715180279131307@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:02:41PM -0400, Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > I am trying to get listen to be viewable by other users than root. I have > checked the permissions on listen and all appears OK, but when I > try to run it as a common user, I get a failure. Define OK? > Here is the error message: > kp4djt@fpac-dev:~$ listen > socket: Operation not permitted > kp4djt@fpac-dev:~$ listen needs to open a socket to receive all traffic (like packet sniffing on ethernet), which only root can do. So listen must be either run by root, or run as root using setuid. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB