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From: Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:30:45 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Customize 'permission denied' error.
Add Fedora-specific message to error output when dumpcap cannot be started
because of permissions.
Signed-off-by: Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com>
diff --git a/capture/capture_sync.c b/capture/capture_sync.c
index 2f9d2cc..b18e47f 100644
--- a/capture/capture_sync.c
+++ b/capture/capture_sync.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ sync_pipe_start(capture_options *capture_opts, capture_session *cap_session, voi
gchar *signal_pipe_name;
#else
char errmsg[1024+1];
+ const char *securitymsg = "";
int sync_pipe[2]; /* pipe used to send messages from child to parent */
enum PIPES { PIPE_READ, PIPE_WRITE }; /* Constants 0 and 1 for PIPE_READ and PIPE_WRITE */
#endif
@@ -728,8 +729,11 @@ sync_pipe_start(capture_options *capture_opts, capture_session *cap_session, voi
dup2(sync_pipe[PIPE_WRITE], 2);
ws_close(sync_pipe[PIPE_READ]);
execv(argv[0], argv);
- g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof errmsg, "Couldn't run %s in child process: %s",
- argv[0], g_strerror(errno));
+ if (errno == EPERM || errno == EACCES)
+ securitymsg = "\nAre you a member of the 'wireshark' group? Try running\n'usermod -a -G wireshark _your_username_' as root.";
+ g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof errmsg, "Couldn't run %s in child process: %s%s",
+ argv[0], g_strerror(errno), securitymsg);
+
sync_pipe_errmsg_to_parent(2, errmsg, "");
/* Exit with "_exit()", so that we don't close the connection
@@ -826,6 +830,7 @@ sync_pipe_open_command(char** argv, int *data_read_fd,
int i;
#else
char errmsg[1024+1];
+ const char *securitymsg = "";
int sync_pipe[2]; /* pipe used to send messages from child to parent */
int data_pipe[2]; /* pipe used to send data from child to parent */
#endif
@@ -1003,8 +1008,11 @@ sync_pipe_open_command(char** argv, int *data_read_fd,
ws_close(sync_pipe[PIPE_READ]);
ws_close(sync_pipe[PIPE_WRITE]);
execv(argv[0], argv);
- g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof errmsg, "Couldn't run %s in child process: %s",
- argv[0], g_strerror(errno));
+ execv(argv[0], (gpointer)argv);
+ if (errno == EPERM || errno == EACCES)
+ securitymsg = "\nAre you a member of the 'wireshark' group? Try running\n'usermod -a -G wireshark _your_username_' as root.";
+ g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof errmsg, "Couldn't run %s in child process: %s%s",
+ argv[0], g_strerror(errno), securitymsg);
sync_pipe_errmsg_to_parent(2, errmsg, "");
/* Exit with "_exit()", so that we don't close the connection
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