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$OpenBSD: patch-man_ettercap_8,v 1.1 2009/08/06 23:44:07 martynas Exp $
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--- man/ettercap.8.orig Fri May 27 18:12:11 2005
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+++ man/ettercap.8 Tue Aug 4 22:09:19 2009
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@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ the subnet.
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.SH PRIVILEGES DROPPING
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ettercap needs root privileges to open the Link Layer sockets. After the
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initialization phase, the root privs are not needed anymore, so ettercap drops
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-them to UID = 65535 (nobody). Since ettercap has to write (create) log files,
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+them to UID = 636 (_ettercap). Since ettercap has to write (create) log files,
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it must be executed in a directory with the right permissions (e.g. /tmp/). If
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you want to drop privs to a different uid, you can export the environment
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variable EC_UID with the value of the uid you want to drop the privs to (e.g.
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