Bug 19696

Summary: Running arpwatch as non root user
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jarno Huuskonen <jarno.huuskonen>
Component: tcpdumpAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Version: 6.2CC: abartlet, dr
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Hardware: i386   
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Patch for arpwatch-2.1a9 to drop root privs after init.
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Arpwatch man page patch. none

Description Jarno Huuskonen 2000-10-24 16:30:22 UTC
Hi,

I made a patch for arpwatch-2.1a10 that allows it to drop root privileges
after opening (pcap_open_live) socket. I'm attaching the patch in case
you are interested (it adds -u command line parameter).
I'm also attaching a man page patch (by Pekka Savola) that describes
the -u parameter.

-Jarno

Comment 1 Jarno Huuskonen 2000-10-24 16:32:26 UTC
Created attachment 4613 [details]
Patch for arpwatch-2.1a9 to drop root privs after init.

Comment 2 Jarno Huuskonen 2000-10-24 16:33:28 UTC
Created attachment 4614 [details]
Arpwatch man page patch.

Comment 3 Daniel Roesen 2000-10-26 11:25:22 UTC
Request for inclusion of this patch strongly seconded.

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2000-11-02 13:14:56 UTC
Fixed (patches added) in tcpdump-3.4-32.

Comment 5 Andrew Bartlett 2001-01-01 02:31:04 UTC
However arpwatch still runs as root - as stated in bug 21737 a new user/group
needs to be added for arpwatch to use.