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Dropping setuid privileges when not needed #30

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grossmj opened this issue Apr 19, 2017 · 1 comment

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grossmj commented Apr 19, 2017

We use setuid on OSX only. For additional security we could implement something like this.

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/secure-programming-cookbook/0596003943/ch01s03.html

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grossmj commented Jul 30, 2023

We need the setuid to capture packets using the libpcap. We could check how Wireshark handle this.

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