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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How to disable lua support from command line ?

From: Matt <mattator@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:14:42 +0900
WIRESHARK_CONFIG_DIR should do the job thanks !

Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 09:33, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 07:03:13PM +0900, Matt wrote:
> > > Why wouldn't that work on all platforms?  Is the concern that you
> > > might not have a location to point XDG_CONFIG_HOME at that's
> > > guaranteed not to have plugins on any of the machines you're using?
> >
> > That delegates the complexity from wireshark to me but while I know
> > about the linux conventions, I don't know about windows or MacOS and
> > it's not like I can test the outcome (but outside con). If I could use
> > a wireshark flag, I would have the guarantee it works on all the
> > platforms supported by wireshark.
>
> You can rely on WIRESHARK_CONFIG_DIR. In order to make this explicit, I
> submitted a documentation patch here:
> https://code.wireshark.org/review/34113
>
> If you set WIRESHARK_CONFIG_DIR to an empty directory, it will not load
> user-specific settings. It will still load settings from the global
> installation folder, but that should be pretty static.
>
> > > Yes - either compiled *or* Lua plugins, so I don't see a need to
> > > treat compiled and Lua plugins differently.
> >
> > I am fine with disabling everything. I was just mentioning the possibility.
> > Is there some work done on this I could follow ? or should I open a
> > ticket on the tracker ?
>
> Would the above environment variables work for you without requiring new
> options?
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Peter Wu
> https://lekensteyn.nl
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