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| author | Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> | 2023-03-04 23:06:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> | 2023-03-04 23:06:59 +0000 |
| commit | 957d0adcac9b06af484bd67a192e75e4f4e60d4f (patch) | |
| tree | 06e69cf68aab4693c1217a5f685b670c659d52e7 | |
| parent | 5bb94bb36ef2f4b04287091043b302dd3399d691 (diff) | |
| download | tcpdump-957d0adcac9b06af484bd67a192e75e4f4e60d4f.tar.gz | |
Fix minor issues in INSTALL.md. [skip ci]
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ If you have not built libpcap, and your system does not have libpcap installed, install libpcap first. Your system might provide a version of libpcap that can be installed; if so, to compile tcpdump you might need to install a "developer" version of libpcap as well as the -"run-time" version. You can also install tcpdump.org's version of +"run-time" version. You can also install The Tcpdump Group version of libpcap; see [this file](README.md) for the location. You will need a C99 compiler to build tcpdump. The build system @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ On OpenBSD, you may need to set, before the `make`, the `AUTOCONF_VERSION` variable like: `AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69 make` -If everything builds ok, `su` and type `make install`. This will install +If everything builds fine, `su` and type `make install`. This will install tcpdump and the manual entry. Any user will be able to use tcpdump to read saved captures. Whether a user will be able to capture traffic depends on the OS and the configuration of the system; see the [tcpdump man page](https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html) -for details. DO NOT give untrusted users the ability to +for details. Do *NOT* give untrusted users the ability to capture traffic. If a user can capture traffic, he or she could use utilities such as tcpdump to capture any traffic on your net, including passwords. @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ passwords. Note that most systems ship tcpdump, but usually an older version. Building tcpdump from source as explained above will usually install the binary as `/usr/local/bin/tcpdump`. If your system has other tcpdump -binaries, you might need to deinstall these or to set the PATH environment +binaries, you might need to deinstall these or to set the `PATH` environment variable if you need the `tcpdump` command to run the new binary (`tcpdump --version` can be used to tell different versions apart). -If your system is not one which we have tested tcpdump on, you may have +If your system is not one that we have tested tcpdump on, you may have to modify the `configure` script and `Makefile.in`. Please [send us patches](https://www.tcpdump.org/index.html#patches) for any modifications you need to make. |