https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4293
--- Comment #2 from Hrishikesh Murali <fnkygy@xxxxxxxxx> 2009-12-04 02:19:54 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> How did you install Wireshark? From a package or source code?
I installed wireshark from a package for ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. The version
is 1.2.2.
> 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.
Well, but if you want to run dumpcap as privileged user you still need to ask
for super user password. Hence the code has to be changed such that the package
has to use the super user privileges only for dumpcap and not for wireshark as
a whole (If it is not already done that is). The menu entry has to still ask
for super user password, "gksu wireshark" as in gnome, not just wireshark
without privileges as dumpcap won't run.
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