From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: Listen command Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:48:04 +1100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040310004804.GA22310@cloud.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian Ham =?iso-8859-1?Q?=28Correio_electr=F3nico=29?= , Ham-List =?iso-8859-1?Q?=28Correio_electr=F3nico=29?= On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:41:11PM -0000, Cristiano Tavares - SP wrote: > After instaling all the software for ax25 why does the LISTEN command works with root and does not work with my normal user? > > I get a error message like: Non-root users aren't allowed to grab all packets on the AX.25 socket, just like all users aren't allowed to run tcpdump to get all packets on ethernet. > Is there any group I must add my normal user? > Which one? I don't think Debian has listen set up like that. You can make it suid root though which would allow anyone to run it. Or suid root, belonging to a group of your choice without execute permission for others. I don't know if a permission change would be preserved when you upgrade the package next though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB