Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi, As stated in the title, I would like to launch wireshark without having to do it as root. I tried being root, but wireshark told me this was disadviced (astonishing, huh?). The problem is that if I

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian discusses wireshark and necessary privileges. This came up a while back on the lists, and someone said that this README, while in Sid,

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

[Please don't cc. me.] On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:29:50 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian discusses

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

Celejar wrote: [Please don't cc. me.] On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:29:50 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Different README; mine doesn't have that stuff, but: I. Capturing packets with Wireshark/Tshark There are two ways of installing Wireshark/Tshark on