Operation not permitted,

[dfu]

Hi All,

I'm trying to run portscaner as part of my work at school. When I run the code it shows an error msg "Operation not permitted". This msg is printed directly after the OS fails to create a socket.

Notes:
1. my system is Mac OS X 10.6.8
2. in this project I'm using row socket.
3. I've written a code before the creates TCP socket and runs perfectly.

I assume this error appear because row sockets require some kind of higher privilege that my system currently has. Does anyone know how to change the privilege in my system?
Any helps is highly appreciated

Thanks,
DFU

 

[cradom]

Are you an Administrator on the machine? If so use sudo to run the comands..input your user password.

 

[dfu]

Thanks cradom.

Yest, I'm the admin on the machine. Would you please advice me where to type sudo?

here is where the code stops:

ss->sockfd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_TCP);
	//int s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW); to  to specify the IP header
	if (ss->sockfd == -1)
	{
		perror("Unable to create socket"); //  here the following is printed out: Unable to create socket, operation not permitted  
		return -1;
	}

 

[cradom]

You use sudo to run the command as a higher level. For example:
sudo netstat
Password: (type your user password here. you wont see it so make sure you type it right)
Have no idea about the code. Maybe someone else can check that?

 

[dfu]

Thanks for your clarification.
I wrote the following in the command line and it works:
sudo ./myexecfile

Thanks again