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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Wireshark on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:25:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10901261025h10123b94o31a86b1092d4a15a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I'm confused on how to run wireshark on Gentoo.  The ebuild says:

 * With version 0.99.7, all function calls that require elevated privileges
 * have been moved out of the GUI to dumpcap. WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER ONE
 * POINT FIVE MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT.
 *
 * NOTE: To run wireshark as normal user you have to add yourself into
 * wireshark group. This security measure ensures that only trusted
 * users allowed to sniff your traffic.

I added my user to the wireshark group, but there are no interfaces
listed in the program.  I read:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges

"Running Wireshark (or any other network capture/analyzer, for that
matter) on Linux needs root privileges. Therefore, you have to have
root privileges when starting Wireshark, else you can't capture data."

I'm not sure how to proceed.

- Grant



             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26 18:25 Grant [this message]
2009-01-26 18:38 ` [gentoo-user] Wireshark on Gentoo Dale
2009-01-26 20:25   ` Grant
2009-01-26 22:03     ` Marc Joliet
2009-01-26 22:11       ` Dale
2009-01-26 22:20       ` Grant

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