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1a8e07101SRui Paulo#! /bin/sh
2a8e07101SRui Paulo
3a8e07101SRui Paulo#
4*b00ab754SHans Petter Selasky# Unfortunately, macOS's devfs is based on the old FreeBSD
5a8e07101SRui Paulo# one, not the current one, so there's no way to configure it
6a8e07101SRui Paulo# to create BPF devices with particular owners or groups.
7a8e07101SRui Paulo# This startup item will make it owned by the admin group,
8a8e07101SRui Paulo# with permissions rw-rw----, so that anybody in the admin
9a8e07101SRui Paulo# group can use programs that capture or send raw packets.
10a8e07101SRui Paulo#
11a8e07101SRui Paulo# Change this as appropriate for your site, e.g. to make
12a8e07101SRui Paulo# it owned by a particular user without changing the permissions,
13a8e07101SRui Paulo# so only that user and the super-user can capture or send raw
14a8e07101SRui Paulo# packets, or give it the permissions rw-r-----, so that
15a8e07101SRui Paulo# only the super-user can send raw packets but anybody in the
16a8e07101SRui Paulo# admin group can capture packets.
17a8e07101SRui Paulo#
18a8e07101SRui Paulochgrp admin /dev/bpf*
19a8e07101SRui Paulochmod g+rw /dev/bpf*
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