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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Is the execution of lua script user-dependend ?

From: Hadriel Kaplan <hadrielk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:33:20 -0700 (PDT)
I should have mentioned" if you want to override that behavior, change that line to this:

    run_user_scripts_when_superuser = true

But note that the above line will get over-written the next time you compile or install wireshark, because init.lua will be replaced.

-hadriel



On Saturday, March 22, 2014 12:22 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadrielk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Look in the init.lua file in your global config directory.  It will have this line:

    run_user_scripts_when_superuser = false

That's the default, so wireshark won't load your script when you do sudo.  It's done that way for safety, since  a Lua script can do basically anything it wants.

-hadriel



On Saturday, March 22, 2014 11:57 AM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote:
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/me wonders why as a common user the LUA script is executed whwreas as sudo it won't print the hello world :

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/wireshark $ cat hello.lua
- -- hello.lua
- -- Lua's implementation of D. Ritchie's hello world program.
  print("hello world!")
- --
- --

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/wireshark $ ./tshark -X lua_script:hello.lua
hello world!
tshark: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done


tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/wireshark $ sudo ./tshark -X lua_script:hello.lua
Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous.
Capturing on 'wlp3s0'
  1 16:40:09.559696 62.231.75.133 -> 192.168.178.21 TCP 236 afs3-fileserver → 35798 [PSH, ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=520 Len=170
  2 16:40:09.559792 192.168.178.21 -> 62.231.75.133 TCP 66 35798 → afs3-fileserver [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=171 Win=1304 Len=0
  3 16:40:09.822955 192.168.178.1 -> 239.255.255.250 SSDP 165 M-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1
  4 16:40:09.823733 fe80::a96:d7ff:fe05:f928 -> ff02::c      SSDP 179 M-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1
^C4 packets captured


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MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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