283527 – Add setuid USE flag to tcpdump ebuild

Bug 283527 - Add setuid USE flag to tcpdump ebuild

Summary: Add setuid USE flag to tcpdump ebuild

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project

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Reported:	2009-09-02 16:00 UTC by Hank Leininger
Modified:	2010-04-02 07:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Add a 'setuid' ebuild flag for tcpdump that installs it mode 4110 (tcpdump-setuid-ebuild.diff,722 bytes, patch) 2009-09-02 16:01 UTC, Hank Leininger	Details \| Diff
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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.