Bug 283527

Summary:	Add setuid USE flag to tcpdump ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hank Leininger <hlein>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	hlein, pva
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Add a 'setuid' ebuild flag for tcpdump that installs it mode 4110

Description Hank Leininger 2009-09-02 16:00:39 UTC

Requesting a setuid USE flag for tcpdump.

While I understand and appreciate not installing tcpdump setuid by default, on most systems I end up creating a group that is allowed to run tcpdump, and chgrp + chmod 4110'ing the binary.  I'd like to simply set a USE flag and forget it, rather than having to redo that after each tcpdump upgrade.

I'll upload a diff against tcpdump-4.0.1_pre20090709.ebuild that abuses group 'tcpdump' for this purpose; a separate group might be called for.

Comment 1 Hank Leininger 2009-09-02 16:01:59 UTC

Created attachment 202967 [details, diff]
Add a 'setuid' ebuild flag for tcpdump that installs it mode 4110

Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-02 07:07:32 UTC

Thank you for report. Added in tcpdump-4.1.0-r1.