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      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