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Grant wrote: |
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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 |
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Works as a user here. Here is some info to compare against. |
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root@smoker / # emerge -pv wireshark |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild R ] net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.5 USE="caps gtk ipv6 pcap |
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pcre zlib -adns -gcrypt -gnutls -kerberos -lua -portaudio -profile |
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(-selinux) -smi -threads" 0 kB |
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Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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root@smoker / # cat /etc/group | grep wireshark |
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wireshark:x:444:dale |
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root@smoker / # |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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