why required root privileges to set multicast options now?

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:59:09PM +0700, swp at swp.pp.ru wrote:
s> FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Sun Oct 10 18:50:14 OMSST 2004
s> 
s> ospfd (net/quagga from ports) run with credentials of quagga:quagga 
s> and unable to set multicast options now. 
s> 
s> OSPF: can't setsockopt IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP (AllSPFRouters): \
s>                                         Operation not permitted
s> OSPF: can't setsockopt IP_MULTICAST_LOOP(0): Operation not permitted
s> OSPF: can't setsockopt IP_MULTICAST_TTL(1): Operation not permitted
s> OSPF: can't setsockopt IP_MULTICAST_IF: Operation not permitted
s> 
s> 5.2-CURRENT and 5.2.1 have no problem.

This is a known problem being investigated.

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