From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 12:34:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E7C37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A467343FD7 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <2003031120343000300ajp8te>; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:34:30 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2BKYTHI005789 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:34:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2BKYTYx005786; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:34:29 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev and FreeBSD 5.0 References: <1047414089.19993.17.camel@dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Mar 2003 15:34:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1047414089.19993.17.camel@dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com> Message-ID: <448yvltzfu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael J Ruhl writes: > I use tcpdump pretty frequently, and on previous version of FreeBSD, I > could set the permissions of the bpf filters so that I could read them > (group access). > > With 5.0, it seems that I can only use tcpdump with root. How can I > specify that the bpf devices are created with group r when not created > by root? As the release notes indicated, devices are now implemented by devfs(5). See its manual page; looks like you want a rule to set the file modes on the node. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message