Re: Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP))

[kenny sigafoose <sigafoose () gmail com>]

Try CACE's Network Toolkit, it has a nice bootable version that could
help and some other nice tools.

Has been great for my lack of admin priv and it comes in a portable
usb version as well.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Marc Luethi <netztier () bluewin ch> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 22:11 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote:
> > I though of installing wireshark on disk on key,
>
> That won't help. WinPcap needs to hook into the Operating System's
> network stack, and to do that, you need admin priviledges.
>
> You'll need a priviledged user to install WinPcap and if you want, it's
> service that will allow unprivileged users to capture traffic.
>
> > but again when installing winpcap it gives me a privilege error.
>
> q.e.d.
>
> You _can_ run Wireshark as unpriviledged user and without the WinPcap
> service, but you're limited to analysis of capture files that are
> obtained by other means (e.g. from running tcpdump on another system).
> WinPcap is only needed if you want to capture packets on the system you
> are using.
>
>
> regards
>
> Marc
>
>
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