On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:10:22PM +0100, Michael Tuexen wrote: > Solution 1: > Execute in the Terminal > sudo chmod u+r /dev/bpf?
u+r, or go+r? The "/dev/bpf*" entries were owned by root, as I remember, and root already has read/write access. Another alternative might be to change the owner of those entries to yourself. > You have to type in your password. This has to be repeated after each > reboot. Is the problem that the "/dev/bpf" entries are supplied by fdescfs, or is it that the union mount that the mount_fdesc man page claims happens with fdescfs doesn't let chmod's pass through it to the underlying on-disk file system? It's a bit irritating Darwin doesn't let me do what FreeBSD and some other BSDs doe, i.e. *persistently* give myself the ability to capture packets as myself rather than as root (although I guess FreeBSD 5.0, using devfs by default, would require me to do it differently).
