I've emerged wireshark, and made myself a member of both the wireshark group, and the tcpdump group, but still wireshark refuses to capture packets if executed as a non root user. The error message is: "Couldn't run dumpcap as a child process: Permission denied."
A little research indicated that dumpcap should be installed suid root and It appears that it is, but I still can't execute it as a non-root user: [ 23:16:38 ] Wed Apr 30 /usr/bin $ : ./dumpcap bash: ./dumpcap: Permission denied [ 09:29:50 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : ls /usr/bin/dump* 52 -r-sr-s--- 1 root wireshark 50876 Apr 27 15:49 /usr/bin/dumpcap [ 09:29:52 ] Wed Apr 30 /usr/bin $ : su Password: [ 09:29:55 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : ./dumpcap File: /tmp/etherXXXXJ8STmt Packets: 7 Packets dropped: 0 [ 09:32:15 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : chown root:root ./dumpcap [ 09:32:19 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : chmod g+s ./dumpcap [ 09:32:29 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : chmod u+s ./dumpcap [ 09:32:38 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : ls /usr/bin/dump* 52 -r-sr-s--- 1 root root 50876 Apr 27 15:49 /usr/bin/dumpcap [ 09:32:47 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : exit exit [ 09:33:01 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : whoami Cyor [ 09:33:06 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : ./dumpcap bash: ./dumpcap: Permission denied [ 09:33:10 ] Thu May 01 /usr/bin $ : I'm sure it's probably something simple that I'm unaware of or not seeing for some reason. Can anybody point out what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, Bob Young San Jose, CA. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
