snoop: cannot open "vnet0": Permission denied

Asked May 19 '15 at 11:20

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Getting the error when tried to take a capture on a solaris machine.

I have tried to run the snoop command

$ /usr/sbin/snoop -o file.pcap
snoop: cannot open "vnet0": Permission denied

$ uname -a
SunOS sdp-2 5.10 Generic_150400-12 sun4v sparc sun4v

How to resolve this error?

asked May 19 '15 at 11:20

Chinmoy

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Maybe snoop requires root privileges to do packet capture? – mvillar May 19 '15 at 11:38
Are you running the command as root or with another user? – alphamikevictor May 19 '15 at 12:11
I was running the command other than root user.But in that case I think it must work – Chinmoy May 19 '15 at 12:35
ppriv -eD snoop -o /var/tmp/file.pcap -d vnet0 This should tell you what privs you're missing as that user, you can then assign rights to the user via RBAC. – cachonfinga Jun 09 '15 at 09:14

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