Grant wrote: > I'm confused on how to run wireshark on Gentoo. The ebuild says: > > * With version 0.99.7, all function calls that require elevated privileges > * have been moved out of the GUI to dumpcap. WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER ONE > * POINT FIVE MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT. > * > * NOTE: To run wireshark as normal user you have to add yourself into > * wireshark group. This security measure ensures that only trusted > * users allowed to sniff your traffic. > > I added my user to the wireshark group, but there are no interfaces > listed in the program. I read: > > http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges > > "Running Wireshark (or any other network capture/analyzer, for that > matter) on Linux needs root privileges. Therefore, you have to have > root privileges when starting Wireshark, else you can't capture data." > > I'm not sure how to proceed. > > - Grant > > >
Works as a user here. Here is some info to compare against. r...@smoker / # emerge -pv wireshark These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.5 USE="caps gtk ipv6 pcap pcre zlib -adns -gcrypt -gnutls -kerberos -lua -portaudio -profile (-selinux) -smi -threads" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB r...@smoker / # cat /etc/group | grep wireshark wireshark:x:444:dale r...@smoker / # Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
