Why couldn't do this by default?
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The debian change is indeed present in lucid. The wireshark-common
postinst script is now capable of running these commands:
addgroup --quiet --system wireshark
chown root:wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap
setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap
However, those commands are only run
To other users who are trying to find an immediate fix:
Upgrade to lucid, reconfigure the wireshark-common package (using dpkg-
reconfigure or synaptic), add yourself to the newly created wireshark
group, log out and back in (to apply your new group membership).
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The change is in Lucid now, but I don't see what to do to enable packet
capture as a user. There's no group named 'wireshark'.
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On 2010-04-27 12:08, Brian Rogers wrote:
The change is in Lucid now, but I don't see what to do to enable packet
capture as a user. There's no group named 'wireshark'.
for a single-user system you can give the dumpcap program (which is
what wireshark uses to capture network traffic) the rights
Please don't.
Keeping the separate group allows finer grained security control.
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Awesome. However, when the newer package is synced from Debian, would it
be better for Ubuntu to change GROUP=wireshark to GROUP=admin in
wireshark-common.postinst?
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Fixed in Debian as of package version 1.2.6-2, one version after the one
currently in Lucid.
See changelog here:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wireshark/wireshark_1.2.6-5/changelog
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** Visibility changed to: Public
** Changed in: wireshark (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: wireshark (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
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