Re: Listen root only

[Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/05, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au> wrote:
> 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.
> 
setuid took care of it.
Actually what I am trying to do is have it run as a shell, so that when I
log into listen I get the listen application. I have that working, but without
the arguments Now I have to figure out how to handle that so I can get
the color screen of the different frame types.

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Chuck Hast 
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