Saying it doesn't work out of the box is a bit misleading, since the program runs and fulfills a good part of its intended purpose (dissecting packets from .pcap files). It is only one feature (performing captures live) that is disabled.
You are correct that security is the primary reason upstream considers running as root a bad idea. While this may not be a concern for many people on trusted networks, privilege separation is still a good security practice. >From upstream's perspective, this isn't a regression at all. The fact that wireshark can be run as root is considered a bug, not a feature. Evan -- 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
