1511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall#! /bin/sh
2511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall
3511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall#
4511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# Unfortunately, Mac OS X's devfs is based on the old FreeBSD
5511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# one, not the current one, so there's no way to configure it
6511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# to create BPF devices with particular owners or groups.
7511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# This startup item will make it owned by the admin group,
8511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# with permissions rw-rw----, so that anybody in the admin
9511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# group can use programs that capture or send raw packets.
10511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall#
11511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# Change this as appropriate for your site, e.g. to make
12511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# it owned by a particular user without changing the permissions,
13511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# so only that user and the super-user can capture or send raw
14511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# packets, or give it the permissions rw-r-----, so that
15511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# only the super-user can send raw packets but anybody in the
16511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall# admin group can capture packets.
17511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrall#
18511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrallchgrp admin /dev/bpf*
19511eca30a483e912c274e1d8ba3a0f8f081e2227JP Abgrallchmod g+rw /dev/bpf*
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