Re: libnet and root privileges question

Shu Xiao <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:12:24 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.libnet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Seems you can work with netinet/ip6.h and netinet/udp.h directly,
in this way you do not bother with root privilege.

Shu

At 15:10 2005-1-19 +0100, 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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>      Laszlo BOKOR      BUTE - Department of Telecommunications
>---------------------/ Mobile Communications and Computing Lab.
>      PhD student    /-------------------------------------------