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Add information on how to set the mode, owner, and/or group of the BPF devices in FreeBSD with devfs. svn path=/trunk/; revision=23032daniel/osmux
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$Id$
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Installing Wireshark on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD
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Installing Wireshark on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/DragonFly BSD
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========================================================================
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1. Extra packages required
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system's documentation on how to make permanent these changes as they
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are often reset upon reboot; if /dev is implemented with devfs, it might
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be possible to configure devfs to create all bpf devices owned by a
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particular user and/or group and with particular permissions.
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particular user and/or group and with particular permissions. In
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FreeBSD 6.0 and later this can be done by creating an /etc/devfs.rules
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file with content such as
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[localrules=10]
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add path 'bpf*' {mode and permissons}
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where "mode and permissions" can include clauses such as
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mode {octal permissions}
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to set the permissions on the device (e.g., "mode 0660" to set the
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permissions to rw-rw-r--),
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user {user}
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to set the user who owns the device, or
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group {group}
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to set the group that owns the device and adding a line such as
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devfs_system_ruleset=localrules
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to /etc/rc.conf. For example, an /etc/devfs.rules file with
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[localrules=10]
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add path 'bpf*' mode 0660 group wheel
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will grant read and write permissions on all BPF devices to all users in
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the "wheel" group.
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