Include DragonFly BSD in the list of BSDs to which this applies.

Add information on how to set the mode, owner, and/or group of the BPF
devices in FreeBSD with devfs.

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$Id$ $Id$
Installing Wireshark on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD Installing Wireshark on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/DragonFly BSD
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1. Extra packages required 1. Extra packages required
@ -80,4 +80,34 @@ that need to use Wireshark to the wheel group. Check your operating
system's documentation on how to make permanent these changes as they system's documentation on how to make permanent these changes as they
are often reset upon reboot; if /dev is implemented with devfs, it might are often reset upon reboot; if /dev is implemented with devfs, it might
be possible to configure devfs to create all bpf devices owned by a be possible to configure devfs to create all bpf devices owned by a
particular user and/or group and with particular permissions. particular user and/or group and with particular permissions. In
FreeBSD 6.0 and later this can be done by creating an /etc/devfs.rules
file with content such as
[localrules=10]
add path 'bpf*' {mode and permissons}
where "mode and permissions" can include clauses such as
mode {octal permissions}
to set the permissions on the device (e.g., "mode 0660" to set the
permissions to rw-rw-r--),
user {user}
to set the user who owns the device, or
group {group}
to set the group that owns the device and adding a line such as
devfs_system_ruleset=localrules
to /etc/rc.conf. For example, an /etc/devfs.rules file with
[localrules=10]
add path 'bpf*' mode 0660 group wheel
will grant read and write permissions on all BPF devices to all users in
the "wheel" group.