On Tuesday 06 April 2010 04:47:22 pm Radek Vokál wrote: > I need few suggestions about this .. > https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/02/running-wireshark-as-you/ .. Gerald > Combs, the upstream maintainer of wireshark, suggests to use > capabilities instead of consolehelper+root privileges for > dumpcap/wireshark. It makes whole lot of sense, so I've looked if other > apps in Fedora are already using it and I haven't found any. Honestly > I'm not sure about right way to use them. The idea is to add something > like following to %post > > # groupadd -g wireshark > # chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap > # setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/dumpcap > # setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/tshark > > Suggestions? Ideas? Spec file patches? rpm supposedly has native support for capabilities. That would mean that you don't need to call setcap. -Steve -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel