5 Sep
2004
5 Sep
'04
2:04 p.m.
Cause SIMH does it's networking things (currently) by packet sniffing,
and most OS's don't want everyone sniffing packets, (Particularly the
ones w/ passwords in them.) ergo, you must be 'root' to sniff packets.
David
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 07:12, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Vince Mulhollon wrote:
My way around it, was to compile two copies of
the pdp11, one
plain user prog called pdp11, one with ethernet compiled in
called pdp11-ether. If someone wants they can SUID root the
pdp11-ether, but I'm not going to do it for them.
I am not an expert pdp11 user but this seems to result in no
complaints (whom is an expert on all 32 simh emulators other
than Bob S ?)
Why does simh need to run as root to do networky stuff?
Gordon.