Contributed by jose on from the yet-more-privsep dept.
To reduce the risk of running tcpdump as root, tcpdump has been modified to become privilege separated. The parsing and printing of the network packets takes now place in an unprivileged, chrooted process.
The work has been done by Can Erkin Acar and Otto Moerbeek.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=107531986114887&w=2 "
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By Chris Walsh () chris@cwalsh.org on mailto:chris@cwalsh.org
I owe at least one person a beer.
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By Otto () otto@drijf.net on mailto:otto@drijf.net
Please file a complete bug report if you are able to reproduce the problem.