[Bug 483106] Re: cannot perform packet captures as a regular user

[Cliff Barbier]

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.

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cannot perform packet captures as a regular user
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