Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:22:24 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: serena zanetta <sz3003@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permission denied error Message-ID: <4B97B930.1040906@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <b2ecfd381003100651s774dd6dcy63c69008088ca826@mail.gmail.com> References: <b2ecfd381003100651s774dd6dcy63c69008088ca826@mail.gmail.com>
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serena zanetta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’ve got a problem with the packet injection. I’ve tried to send a packet by
> the means of the nemesis suite. Everything works fine since I type the
> command
>
> “nemesis udp …”
>
> on the command line.
>
> If I tried to call the same command via the PHP exec()
>
> exec("nemesis udp $message_to_send",$response);
>
> the nemesis packet injection failed: “/dev/bpf0: Permission denied” !
>
> sprintf(device, "/dev/bpf%d", i);
>
> fd = open(device, O_RDWR);
>
> Gives fd = -1.
Is your PHP script called as user root or www (via Apache)?
bpf device is usable only by root (be default) unless you change the
permissions:
# ls -al /dev/bpf0
crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 170 Aug 25 2009 /dev/bpf0
Miroslav Lachman
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