The K Desktop Environment

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4.11 Privileged User Setup

KSnuffle can be set up to allow non-root users to see some or all network traffic. Note that, to allow this, KSnuffle must be a SetUID-root program. Also, this page only appears if KSnuffle is actually being run by root.

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In addition, a filter can be applied to any Full Access or Data Hidden user. Double-clicking a user brings up a dialog into which a tcpdump style filter program can be entered. This is applied to all packets. Only those that pass the filter are visible to the user.

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