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 to read network traffic using this command: sudo setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap this should work on lucid without the need to create a group -- Must be run as root, which is not secure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513903 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
