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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4293] When wireshark 1.2.2 is installed, the menu entry do

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:11:53 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4293

--- Comment #1 from Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-12-04 01:11:44 PST ---
How did you install Wireshark?  From a package or source code?  The recommended
method of running Wireshark with elevated privileges is to set dumpcap to
setuid root so that it can do the capturing while keeping Wireshark itself
running as a normal user.  Dumpcap even drops privileges when it can.

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