ettercap-pkexec8
Graphical pkexec-based launcher for ettercap this launcher depends on policykit-1 and the menu packages, and basically wraps the ettercap binary command with a pkexec action script usually defined on /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.pkexec.ettercap.policy, allowing users to directly call ettercap from the desktop or menu launcher with root privileges. the commands available are exactly the same as the ettercap man page. please refer to man ettercap for the list of available parameters. (don't forget to change "ettercap" to "ettercap-pkexec" as caller program). example: ettercap-pkexec -g will start ettercap with root privileges and the gtk2 interface.
Original authors
Alberto Ornaghi (ALoR) <[email protected]>
Marco Valleri (NaGA) <[email protected]>
Project stewards
Emilio Escobar (exfil) <[email protected]>
Eric Milam (Brav0Hax) <[email protected]>
Official developers
Mike Ryan (justfalter) <[email protected]>
Gianfranco Costamagna (LocutusOfBorg) <[email protected]>
Antonio Collarino (sniper) <[email protected]>
Ryan Linn <[email protected]>
Jacob Baines <[email protected]>
Contributors
Dhiru Kholia (kholia) <[email protected]>
Alexander Koeppe (koeppea) <[email protected]>
Martin Bos (PureHate) <[email protected]>
Enrique Sanchez
Gisle Vanem <[email protected]>
Johannes Bauer <[email protected]>
Daten (Bryan Schneiders) <[email protected]>
Git
git clone git://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap.git
or
git clone https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap.git
Philological history
"Even if blessed with a feeble intelligence, they are cruel and smart..." this is the description of Ettercap, a monster of the RPG Advanced Dungeons & Dragon.
The name "ettercap" was chosen because it has an assonance with "ethercap" which means "ethernet capture" (what ettercap actually does) and also because such monsters have a powerful poison... and you know, arp poisoning... ;)
The Lord Of The (Token)Ring
(the fellowship of the packet)
"One Ring to link them all, One Ring to ping them,
one Ring to bring them all and in the darkness sniff them."
Last words
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook
Releases
7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.