On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:10:41PM +0200, Sebastian .Rother wrote: > > > >surely, but has security improved? does it have privsep? until that > >has changed, ethereal will not come back. sorry. > > > > jakob > > > Then drop all ports! > Has Gnome Priv-Sep? hydra? nmap? KDE? xpdf? XMMS? mplayer?
No one remotely sane run those as root. Another uninformed post of yours. Capturing traffic by some other mean then analysing it with Ethereal under an unprivileged account might be safe, actually capturing an analysing traffic with Ethereal is definitely not, given its architecture and history of sloppy coding...
