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As with other systems using BPF, Mac OS X allows users with read access
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to the BPF devices to capture packets with libpcap and allows users with
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write access to the BPF devices to send packets with libpcap.
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On some systems that use BPF, the BPF devices live on the root file
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system, and the permissions and/or ownership on those devices can be
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changed to give users other than root permission to read or write those
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devices.
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On newer versions of FreeBSD, the BPF devices live on devfs, and devfs
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can be configured to set the permissions and/or ownership of those
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devices to give users other than root permission to read or write those
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devices.
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On Mac OS X, the BPF devices live on devfs, but the OS X version of
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devfs is based on an older (non-default) FreeBSD devfs, and that version
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of devfs cannot be configured to set the permissions and/or ownership of
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those devices.
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Therefore, we supply a "startup item" for OS X that will change the
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ownership of the BPF devices so that the "admin" group owns them, and
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will change the permission of the BPF devices to rw-rw----, so that all
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users in the "admin" group - i.e., all users with "Allow user to
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administer this computer" turned on - have both read and write access to
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them.
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The startup item is in the ChmodBPF directory in the source tree. A
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/Library/StartupItems directory should be created if it doesn't already
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exist, and the ChmodBPF directory should be copied to the
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/Library/StartupItems directory (copy the entire directory, so that
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there's a /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF directory, containing all the
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files in the source tree's ChmodBPF directory; don't copy the individual
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items in that directory to /Library/StartupItems).
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If you want to give a particular user permission to access the BPF
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devices, rather than giving all administrative users permission to
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access them, you can have the ChmodBPF/ChmodBPF script change the
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ownership of /dev/bpf* without changing the permissions. If you want to
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give a particular user permission to read and write the BPF devices and
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give the administrative users permission to read but not write the BPF
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devices, you can have the script change the owner to that user, the
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group to "admin", and the permissions to rw-r-----. Other possibilities
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are left as an exercise for the reader.
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