Package: wireshark
Version: 0.99.7-1

wireshark silently fails if it does not have privileges. It does print
a message on the console:
08:56:42          Warn Unknown message from dumpcap, try to show it as
a string: capset(): Operation not permitted

Since this situation is a fairly common, the GUI should display some
sort of error message. Failing that, README.Debian could explain the
situation a bit and point to
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges

A nice upstream fix would be if wireshark could be configured to run
`sudo dumpcap' rather than just `dumpcap'.

Cheers,
Shaun



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to