On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 7:51 AM Graham Bloice
wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 10:34, Dario Lombardo 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
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 10:34, Dario Lombardo 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
>
> +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
Title: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark on Kali linux
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 17:32, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
So the question is whether we should print/pop up a message if TShark/Wireshark is running as root - and, if we do, whether we should have a compile or configu
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:26 PM João Valverde <
joao.valve...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> wrote:
>
> I think a warning for "running Wireshark/tshark as root is dangerous" is
> very appropriate. There is a legitimate discussion to be had on whether
> it should be more or less forceful and what to do about
On 06/02/19 17:31, Guy Harris wrote:
On Feb 6, 2019, at 5:06 AM, Peter Wu wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 12:46:20PM +, João Valverde wrote:
I have some doubts about the effectiveness and usefulness of this Lua
sandbox. I didn't investigate in depth but it seems enabling/disabling the
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 17:32, Guy Harris wrote:
>
>
>
> So the question is whether we should print/pop up a message if
> TShark/Wireshark is running as root - and, if we do, whether we should have
> a compile or configuration option to disable that, so it can be disabled on
> Kali Linux or other
On Feb 6, 2019, at 5:06 AM, Peter Wu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 12:46:20PM +, João Valverde wrote:
>
>> I have some doubts about the effectiveness and usefulness of this Lua
>> sandbox. I didn't investigate in depth but it seems enabling/disabling the
>> Lua runtime instead would be
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 12:46:20PM +, João Valverde wrote:
>
>
> On 06/02/19 09:08, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> > > This would mean that they'd have to build Wireshark differently from
> > the default way it's built, using the "package for systems that run
> > everything as root" option. That
On 06/02/19 09:08, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> This would mean that they'd have to build Wireshark differently from
the default way it's built, using the "package for systems that run
everything as root" option. That means a standard Debian package, built
to run on a system where you *don't*
> This would mean that they'd have to build Wireshark differently from the
default way it's built, using the "package for systems that run everything
as root" option. That means a standard Debian package, built to run on a
system where you *don't* run everything as root, so that you can leave the
On 05/02/19 23:50, Guy Harris wrote:
On Feb 5, 2019, at 2:52 PM, João Valverde
wrote:
On 05/02/19 16:48, Dario Lombardo wrote:
Possible solutions:
- don't enable this error for console.lua
By which you presumably mean something more general, such as "don't enable this
error for
On Feb 5, 2019, at 2:52 PM, João Valverde
wrote:
> On 05/02/19 16:48, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> Possible solutions:
> - don't enable this error for console.lua
By which you presumably mean something more general, such as "don't enable this
error for scripts that are distributed as part of
On 05/02/19 16:48, Dario Lombardo wrote:
Hi
Today I found out an annoying issue on kali. It ships with a pretty new
version of wireshark, but when you launch it, an issue raises. This post
describes the issue and proposes a fix, too.
On Feb 5, 2019, at 2:08 PM, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> Yes. Kali Linux is a very popular distribution for pentesting. Most of the
> software it ships requires root privileges, hence they just use root.
OK, so at least they're not doing something stupid such as specifically running
Wireshark as
Yes. Kali Linux is a very popular distribution for pentesting. Most of the
software it ships requires root privileges, hence they just use root. It is
basically a live distro run from cd/USB or in a VM. Usually it's not
installed on the hard drive and when a new version is available it is just
On Feb 5, 2019, at 8:48 AM, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> I know that the problem is how kali runs wireshark (as root) and that it
> should be avoided, but this is how kali works
Kali Linux has no user accounts, so you log in as root and thus everything runs
as root?
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