simh running as root etc

[Gordon JC Pearce]

David Holland wrote:
> 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

Have you seen how User Mode Linux handles this?  IIRC you can run a 
userspace kernel, and have it talk to a networking daemon which runs as 
root.  Obviously this gives you a lot more fine-grained control over 
what the UML kernel actually sees - great for honeypots, because from 
"outside" it looks just like an ordinary running Linux kernel.

Gordon.