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Re: USB sniffing / packet size
From: Karthik Balaguru <karthikbalaguru79 () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:49:02 +0530
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
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
Interesting link :-)
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).
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Current thread:
- USB sniffing / packet size Yuval Levy (Jan 21)
- Re: USB sniffing / packet size Guy Harris (Jan 21)
- Re: USB sniffing / packet size Yuval Levy (Jan 30)
- Re: USB sniffing / packet size Stephen Fisher (Jan 21)
- Re: USB sniffing / packet size Karthik Balaguru (Jan 23)
- Re: USB sniffing / packet size Guy Harris (Jan 21)