This issue, as well as its fix, has been in Brainstorm for over a year. It's a simple, security-minded fix. To quote from there...
Wireshark's developers strongly recommend against running as root. As of 9.10, Wireshark installs to menu with no root option, making it useless. Installing the small dumpcap binary from wireshark-common suid root allows users to run wireshark itself, with all its complexety, as unprivileged users, thus possibly enhancing security. sudo chgrp GROUPNAME /usr/bin/dumpcap sudo chmod 4750 /usr/bin/dumpcap http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14140/ I have set the group on my machine to "admin", but a new "wireshark" group makes sense, too. -- cannot perform packet captures as a regular user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483106 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
