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I'm confused on how to run wireshark on Gentoo. The ebuild says: |
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* With version 0.99.7, all function calls that require elevated privileges |
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* have been moved out of the GUI to dumpcap. WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER ONE |
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* POINT FIVE MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT. |
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* NOTE: To run wireshark as normal user you have to add yourself into |
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* wireshark group. This security measure ensures that only trusted |
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* users allowed to sniff your traffic. |
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I added my user to the wireshark group, but there are no interfaces |
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listed in the program. I read: |
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http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges |
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"Running Wireshark (or any other network capture/analyzer, for that |
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matter) on Linux needs root privileges. Therefore, you have to have |
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root privileges when starting Wireshark, else you can't capture data." |
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I'm not sure how to proceed. |
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- Grant |