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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Ubuntu 14.04 user level capture permissions from source

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:44:01 +0200
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:24:52PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 03:44 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > On 06/17/14 08:27, Alan Marchiori wrote:
> >> $ getcap /usr/local/bin/dumpcap
> >> /usr/local/bin/dumpcap = cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+eip

Btw, the "i" is not needed:
setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+ep /path/to/dumpcap

Ciao
   Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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