1 #! /bin/sh 2 3 # 4 # Unfortunately, Mac OS X's devfs is based on the old FreeBSD 5 # one, not the current one, so there's no way to configure it 6 # to create BPF devices with particular owners or groups. 7 # This startup item will make it owned by the admin group, 8 # with permissions rw-rw----, so that anybody in the admin 9 # group can use programs that capture or send raw packets. 10 # 11 # Change this as appropriate for your site, e.g. to make 12 # it owned by a particular user without changing the permissions, 13 # so only that user and the super-user can capture or send raw 14 # packets, or give it the permissions rw-r-----, so that 15 # only the super-user can send raw packets but anybody in the 16 # admin group can capture packets. 17 # 18 chgrp admin /dev/bpf* 19 chmod g+rw /dev/bpf* 20