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+Description: Drop root privileges silently as it's the default
+Forwarded: no
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/935112
+Origin: vendor, https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tcpdump/raw/master/f/0008-Don-t-print-out-we-dropped-root-we-are-always-droppi.patch
+---
+ tcpdump.c | 5 -----
+ 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/tcpdump.c
++++ b/tcpdump.c
+@@ -788,8 +788,6 @@
+ int ret = capng_change_id(pw->pw_uid, pw->pw_gid, CAPNG_NO_FLAG);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ error("capng_change_id(): return %d\n", ret);
+- else
+- fprintf(stderr, "dropped privs to %s\n", username);
+ }
+ #else
+ if (initgroups(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid) != 0 ||
+@@ -799,9 +797,6 @@
+ (unsigned long)pw->pw_uid,
+ (unsigned long)pw->pw_gid,
+ pcap_strerror(errno));
+- else {
+- fprintf(stderr, "dropped privs to %s\n", username);
+- }
+ #endif /* HAVE_LIBCAP_NG */
+ } else
+ error("Couldn't find user '%.32s'", username);