libnet [PSARC/2008/409 FastTrack timeout 07/03/2008]

[Darren J Moffat]

Daria Mehra wrote:
>> Will the documentation be updated to mention what authroisations
>> within OpenSolaris are required to use this application?
> 
> Darren Moffat's comment addressed this. If you are asking about 
> privileges, an application using libnet will need to run as root. This 
> can be included in libnet's main manpage, if desired. If this doesn't 
> answer your question, please clarify.

Acutally "root" is the wrong answer.  The correct answer is one or more 
explicitly listed privileges (or privilege sets such as all).  I don't 
want to see "root" listed on the man page because that is wrong.

Depending on what it is that libnet allows the user to do the answer is 
probably something like sys_net_config or net_rawaccess or maybe it 
varies depending on the device and which libnet interface.  However 
"root" is most certainly not the answer.

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Darren J Moffat