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Run without sudo on OSX #15
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Not much of an issue, but more of a documentation change. It is POSSIBLE to run without using sudo.
On OSX, all applications using libpcap use the BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) devices (/dev/bpf*). Normally, only root has rw- access to them. With a simple change, we can permit any user on the system to use them.
# sudo chmod +r /dev/bpf*
This is probably not the smartest idea on a multiuser system. You may wish to create a group (read_bpf, for example), add yourself to it, and give that group read-permission.
Linux:
# sudo groupadd read_bpf
# sudo gpasswd -a read_bpf username
# sudo chown root.read_bpf /dev/bpf*
# sudo chmod g+r /dev/bpf*
OSX can use dscl to create groups and add users to them.
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hortinstein commentedon Dec 1, 2015
thank you for pointing this out. i will look at a good place to put this in the documentation!
xraken commentedon Feb 14, 2016
You can do this on Linux to run without sudo every time (with some caveats):
/usr/bin/nodejs is where my nodejs is installed.
The big caveat is of course you are granting elevated Network privs to all of nodejs.
KrisHedges commentedon May 22, 2016
So... I found that doing this on OSX is only a temporary solution. Upon restart these permissions are reset.
Bummer.
lukaskollmer commentedon Sep 3, 2016
@KrisHedges put it in a cronjob to add the required permissions at launch?
KrisHedges commentedon Sep 3, 2016
Awesome, I'll check it out.