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Using pcap4j without root privileges #40

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bruskli opened this issue May 3, 2015 · 1 comment
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Using pcap4j without root privileges #40

bruskli opened this issue May 3, 2015 · 1 comment
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bruskli commented May 3, 2015

It is not clearly stated on the great documentation of your package, but you can
add caps to the java binary in order to make live captures without being root.

setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip $JAVA_BIN
java = cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+eip

More info here
http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/mar/19/sniffing-wireshark-non-root-user/
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kaitoy commented May 5, 2015

Thank you for the information.
I've ever tried it when issue22, but I've not documented at that time.
I added description about Linux capabilities to READMEs.

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