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GNS3 / ubridge

Bridge for UDP tunnels, Ethernet, TAP and VMnet interfaces.
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Dropping setuid privileges when not needed #30

Open grossmj opened 7 years ago

grossmj commented 7 years ago

We use setuid on OSX only. For additional security we could implement something like this.

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/secure-programming-cookbook/0596003943/ch01s03.html

grossmj commented 1 year ago

We need the setuid to capture packets using the libpcap. We could check how Wireshark handle this.