Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
Wireshark won't load plugins not owned by root if running as root.
That is to avoid someone writing a plugin that (e.g.) executes a shell
with root priviledges in a system where wireshark is allowed by sudo.
# chown root your_plugin
By the way WS as of 1.0 does not require to be run as root anymore, it
runs setuid and drops privileges ASAP.
Wireshark 1.0 doesn't run as set-UID, but it also doesn't itself do
packet capture, so it doesn't have to; TShark 1.0 doesn't run as root,
either.
Instead, they run dumpcap to do the low-level packet capturing; dumpcap
can be installed as set-UID root, if that's required in order to capture
packets, and relinquishes its privileges as soon as it can.
