#544482 wireshark (as root) desktop file

Package:
wireshark
Source:
wireshark
Description:
network traffic analyzer - meta-package
Submitter:
Luca Bruno
Date:
2014-08-25 09:15:10 UTC
Severity:
normal
#544482#5
Date:
2009-08-31 21:39:34 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,
I used to have a Wireshark (as root) menu item under Internet (in gnome at least) which was useful for running wireshark with root privileges.
Now I only see the normal Wireshark menu item, which starts the program with user privileges.
You know that you can't sniff without being root, so every time I have to run wireshark from a root terminal.
Why has it been removed?

#544482#10
Date:
2009-09-01 12:44:31 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

From 1.2.1-2, you can run wireshark as a normal user and capture traffic.
For instructions, see README.Debian [1].

Cheers,
Balint

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/ext-maint/wireshark/tags/1.2.1-2/debian/README.Debian