Oh, I didn't know the trick of modifying the permission of dumpcap -Thanks for pointing this out.
regards -Xiao On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Jaap Keuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > These are nice articles. There's one big problem though: root access. > http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/05/04/2387266.aspx > > You state that you need root access to build and run Wireshark. That is untrue > and potentially dangerous. First of all leave it out of the build, so: > > ... execute "./autogen.sh && ./configure" in command line.... > > You can run Wireshark straight up, without becoming root, to read in capture > files. If you want to capture you can modify the permissions of dumpcap, the > capture utility, to setuid root. Then Wireshark can capture, without becoming > root. > > You may want to incorporate these notes into your memo. > > Thanx, > Jaap > > Xiao Li wrote: >> Hi, >> In recent experience of writing wireshark plugin and deploying it >> onto different platforms, I have created following memos. Hope they >> can be useful for other ones' trouble-shooting. >> >> -Xiao >> >> How to write a simplest wireshark dissector(under Linux) >> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/05/04/2387266.aspx >> >> Memo for Wireshark installation under Solaris >> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/05/05/2387968.aspx >> >> Memo of Wireshark building under Windows >> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/09/23/2966970.aspx > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-dev mailing list > Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org > https://wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev > _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org https://wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
