Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] eth0 missing

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:23 AM, firstname lastname wrote:

> You need to open wireshark with root privileges.

You need to avoid opening Wireshark with root privileges, as I said in my reply.  You need to arrange that the much smaller program "dumpcap" has sufficient privileges, which, on many OSes - including, I think, most modern versions of most Linux distributions - does *NOT* mean root privileges.