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Many UN*Xes come with libpcap, so you might not have to install
authorguy <guy>
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:12:32 +0000 (20:12 +0000)
committerguy <guy>
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:12:32 +0000 (20:12 +0000)
commit154fae938c12f997db3e85323fa2daafc9c0bfb9
tree5b4a9d291b0defdd3a31b988e19ca6dedbf61ece
parent3fdf7e4b73ef5dbf54e9a978285437878d29fea7
Many UN*Xes come with libpcap, so you might not have to install
tcpdump.org's libpcap in order to build tcpdump.org's tcpdump (the
configure script doesn't assume the latest version of libpcap, so it
should be possible to build tcpdump with older versions of libpcap).

By default, tcpdump is installed with universal execute permissions, and
no special privileges; that way, anybody can use it to read a capture.

Remove the comments about capture permissions, as it applies only to
systems using BPF.  The tcpdump man page gives the gory details of
capture permissions; refer users there.

Remove the comment about libpcap; it's in the libpcap INSTALL.txt, where
it belongs.
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