Setting the capabilities to sniff on an interface with libpcap: Revision history

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2 April 2025

  • curprev 21:2921:29, 2 April 2025‎ Alex talk contribs‎ 767 bytes −19‎ No edit summary
  • curprev 21:2921:29, 2 April 2025‎ Alex talk contribs‎ 786 bytes +786‎ Created page with "So i did this in rust, however is the case for any language. This allows you to run a program as a non root user but have access to the interface for sniffing. This command sets the capabilities of the executable. It must have both cap_net_admin and cap_net_raw. <pre> sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=+ep target/debug/rp2009_sniffer </pre> The code then also needs to set it? <pre> 11 caps::raise(None, caps::CapSet::Inheritable, caps::Capability::CAP_NET_A..."
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