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Re:1Password sends your password in clear text across the lo... by lttlrck on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @06:52PM (#11214057)
On Linux you can give an executable admin access to network devices with setcap which narrows it down further. Is the same possible on OS X?

Edit. Actually this is worse than running as root isn't it!

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Re:1Password sends your password in clear text across the lo... by cyphar on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @10:57PM (#11214931)
setcap is in principle better than setuid if your program is something like ping. Or in this case, wireshark.
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