Re: Wireshark on Kali linux

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 7:51 AM Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 10:34, Dario Lombardo <lomato () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > +1 from me for this as well. The warning should be there for anyone not
> > > realizing that this is dangerous, but having the option to mute that
> > > warning for people who know (or think they do) what they're doing makes
> > > sense.
> > >
> > > My only concern is that if we expect the distribution people to
> > deactivate it, and they don't care, we're are not moving. I'd like to have
> > something that
> > 1) doesn't rely on env variables, cmd line switches, preferences, any
> > other stuff related to the way the software is launched, but works
> > out-of-the-box. It's ok to rely on the package we distribute (Balint's
> > package is not official, but he's a core-, so we're controlling it). If
> > other distributions run "as root" and are based on rpm, we should cover
> > that as well.
> > 2) doesn't bother the users (basically no dialogs).
>
> Surely it has to bother the user in some way, as otherwise there is no
> point?  I'm not advocating the triple chase-the-dialog really, really
> confirm type of dialog, but I do think it should be front and centre.

I hadn't even noticed that the Qt UI *doesn't* provide such a warning.  The
Gtk one did; for example:

https://blog.binarymist.net/2013/04/13/running-wireshark-as-non-root-user/

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