Re: libnet and root privileges question

Mike Schiffman <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:52:48 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.libnet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nope, unless your operation system splits privileged access into 
separate and more granular capabilities (but it sounds like you'd have 
the same issue).

On Jan 19, 2005, at 6:10 AM, Bokor Laszlo wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> my question is for the libnet developers: is there any method to use 
> your
> library without root privileges? We are using libnet only to create
> UDP/IPv6 headers. We are getting out the created headers from the 
> context,
> and writing them into a specialized file, so we don't use any sockets.
>
> If you know any other library for the mentioned problem, please tell 
> me.
>
> Hoping your kind help,
> goodzi
>
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>
>
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