Friday, December 9, 2011

Wireshark - no capture interfaces as normal user

In Ubuntu 10.04, Wireshark shows no capture interfaces unless run as root. Found a couple options listed here:

http://steve.kargs.net/bacnet/wireshark-on-ubuntu-not-as-root/

Option 1
sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin wireshark
sudo chgrp admin /usr/bin/dumpcap
sudo chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/dumpcap

Option 2, I used this one
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
sudo adduser skarg wireshark

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