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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark needs root privileges?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:16:53 -0700
On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:

> What about dropping root privilages after invoking dumpcap?

If you mean "what about having dumpcap drop privileges when it no longer needs them?", as I remember, it does that in 1.2 and later, and perhaps even in 1.0 and later.
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