Re: USB sniffing / packet size

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Yuval Levy wrote:

> I start wireshark from a Konsole window and run it as root (the only way I 
> found to give it access to the interfaces).

See: http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PrivilegeSeparation

Typically, you just need to set dumpcap to be setuid root and then it will drop privileges when done opening the 
interfaces.  Wireshark/tshark running as a normal user will then communicate with dumpcap running as root (and then 
back to your username too).

Steve

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