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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>Hello, I have installed the 'wireshark' through the LinuxMint13 repositories and have discovered that I do not want to run the program as root which by default it seems to be set up to do.<br><br>I have entered and run the following command in terminal 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common'. <br><br>Output is as follows:<br><br>Dumpcap can be installed in a way that allows members of the "wireshark" <br> system group to capture packets. This is recommended over the <br> alternative of running Wireshark/Tshark directly as root, because less <br> of the code will run with elevated privileges. <br> <br> For more detailed information please see <br> /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian. <br> <br> Enabling this feature may be a security risk, so it is disabled by <br> default. If in doubt, it is suggested to leave it disabled. <br> <br> Should non-superusers be able to capture packets? <br> <br> <Yes> <No> <br><br>I then have selected <Yes>.<br><br>Now upon entering the following command 'wireshark' in terminal, I get an error message. 'Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied'<br><br>So further investigation into the '/usr/bin/dumpcap' directory yields the following:<br><br>-rwxr-xr-- 1 root wireshark 66K Apr 12 2012 dumpcap<br><br>So should I be using 'chown' here to change root to paul? Paul is the user's name who is trying to run 'wireshark'. Do I need to add Paul to the wireshark group?<br><br>Thank You,<br></div> </div></body>
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