Actually, the proper way to capture is described in bug #513903 Running wireshark as root is considered a Bad Idea for security reasons, which is why the menu item is non-root by default. A lot of people run it as root anyways, because it's easier than setting up a secure method of capturing packets.
I would tend to agree with you, but I'm just a bug triager. I suggest you contact upstream directly if you really want to get a discussion going here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758916 Title: Lua: Error during loading: [string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:45: dofile has been disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireshark/+bug/758916/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
