simh running as root etc

[David Holland]

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.