On 19/09/18 at 18:47, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On 19/09/18 at 14:07, m712 wrote:
>> On September 18, 2018 1:31:56 PM GMT+03:00, Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:
>>>   Hello,
>>>
>>>     I recently installed etherape 0.9.13-1+b1 and found out it could
>>> not
>>> do anything when run as an unprivileged user:
>>>
>>>
>>> Error opening eth0 : eth0: You don't have permission to capture on that
>>> device (socket: Operation not permitted) - perhaps you need to be root?
>>>
>>>
>>>   I could find an "EtherApe (as root)" menu item in my desktop's menu
>>> under System, but it asks for the superuser's password and I don't like
>>> that.
>>>
>>>   I then run the following command as root:
>>>
>>>
>>> setcap CAP_NET_RAW=pe /usr/bin/etherape
>>>
>>>
>>>   And i can now run etherape as a regular user without entering the
>>> superuser's password or setting the binary SUID root.
>>>
>>>   Could this be make a default setting at package installation, or at
>>> least could there be some reference to this setting in the package info
>>> and/or in the command man page?
>> I agree that this should be a package default, not just here but on Debian's side too. Would you like to contact the maintainer or should I?
>>

>>            m712

>
>   For once I'll put aside my laziness and do it myself.  ☺
>
>  Thank you anyway.
>
>
> Alessandro

  OK, Debian package maintainer Frederic Peters asked me to open a new
bug.  It is bug #910117:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910117


  Bye



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