+#ifndef WIN32
+ /*
+ * If a user name was specified with "-Z", attempt to switch to
+ * that user's UID. This would probably be used with sudo,
+ * to allow tcpdump to be run in a special restricted
+ * account (if you just want to allow users to open capture
+ * devices, and can't just give users that permission,
+ * you'd make tcpdump set-UID or set-GID).
+ *
+ * Tcpdump doesn't necessarily write only to one savefile;
+ * the general only way to allow a -Z instance to write to
+ * savefiles as the user under whose UID it's run, rather
+ * than as the user specified with -Z, would thus be to switch
+ * to the original user ID before opening a capture file and
+ * then switch back to the -Z user ID after opening the savefile.
+ * Switching to the -Z user ID only after opening the first
+ * savefile doesn't handle the general case.
+ */
+ if (getuid() == 0 || geteuid() == 0) {
+ if (username || chroot_dir)
+ droproot(username, chroot_dir);
+ }
+#endif /* WIN32 */
+