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Re: Wireshark needs root privileges?
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames () darkjames ath cx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:13:49 +0200
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:50:54AM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:Despite warnings about running Wireshark as root, on my Ubuntu 9.10 system the app sees no network interfaces unless I run it as root. Is this normal? I've googled for "Ubuntu wireshark" and it does seem that self-styled journalists (blogs) recommend running as root, but I do not trust them for best practices.On most OS[1] you need "root" (or similar) privileges in order to open the network device in a manner that allows you to capture packets. Running Wireshark (the GUI) as root is strongly discouraged: since 1.0 Wireshark has had a separate utility (dumpcap) that contains all the packet capture code: only that utility needs to run as root, allowing you to run the multiple million lines of code in the bulk of Wireshark as a normal user.
What about dropping root privilages after invoking dumpcap? ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Wireshark needs root privileges? Dotan Cohen (Jun 03)
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- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Dotan Cohen (Jun 03)
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- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Dotan Cohen (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Jeff Morriss (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Jakub Zawadzki (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Guy Harris (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Jeff Morriss (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Jakub Zawadzki (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Anthony Murabito (Jun 03)
- Re: Wireshark needs root privileges? Jaap Keuter (Jun 03)