[olsr-dev] root permission

[Andreas Tønnesen]

Just to clarify, there are other issues than this as well. olsrd must be
able to write to do IP stack configuration(write to procfs files in
Linux), add routes, del routes etc., all of which requires root
privilegies.

- Andreas

>
> Because it binds to UDP/698 which is a "privileged"(<1024) port.
>
> - Andreas
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>> Hello
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>> why is it necessary to run olsr with root premission  ?
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>> Abhishek Misra
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