Re: [Wireshark-dev] Parameters for extcap

2022-01-03 Thread Jirka Novak
Hi, just for reference... On 11/30/21 09:49, Roland Knall wrote: Both issues where done so by design. For the password, there was a reasonable concern, that passwords may be read-out. Now, you could argue, that monitoring the cumpcap call gives you the password anyway, which is correct.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Parameters for extcap

2021-11-30 Thread Jirka Novak
Dear Roland, > Both issues where done so by design. I expect so, but it makes issues during use :-( > For the password, there was a reasonable concern, that passwords may be > read-out. Now, you could argue, that monitoring the cumpcap call gives > you the password anyway, which is correct. The

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Parameters for extcap

2021-11-30 Thread Roland Knall
Both issues where done so by design. For the password, there was a reasonable concern, that passwords may be read-out. Now, you could argue, that monitoring the cumpcap call gives you the password anyway, which is correct. The intended usecase originally was to use the password together with ssh,

[Wireshark-dev] Parameters for extcap

2021-11-29 Thread Jirka Novak
Hi, Wireshark is able to run external captures (extcap). Extcap tools can provide configuration description which Wireshark shows as dialog and stores in advanced properties. I'm observing two strange things I understood as bug. 1) If the tools provides as type of setting 'password', it is