Hi Brandon, Have you run "dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common"?
By default dumpcap is installed without allowing non-root users to capture packets. Before running dpkg-reconfigure, please remove the non-system wireshark group if there is any. I'll update README.Debian to clarify default behavior. Cheers, Balint 2011/4/9 Brandon Simmons <brandon.m.simm...@gmail.com>: > Package: wireshark > Version: 1.4.4-1 > Severity: normal > > Per the README.Debian, I have added my user to the 'wireshark' group (this > group > did not already exist). On relaunching wireshark I still had no interfaces > available for sniffing. When I run as root, my interfaces are available to > use. > > Here are the commands I ran: > $ sudo groupadd wireshark > $ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark me > > I also tried: > $ sudo addgroup --system wireshark > > Thanks > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages wireshark depends on: > ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > lib > ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.2-1 The GLib library of C routines > ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface > ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of > internatio > ii libpcap0.8 1.1.1-2 system interface for user-level > pa > ii libportaudio2 19+svn20110317-1 Portable audio I/O - shared > librar > ii libwireshark0 1.4.4-1 a network packet dissection > librar > ii libwiretap0 1.4.4-1 a network packet capture library > - > ii libwsutil0 1.4.4-1 network packet dissection > utilitie > ii wireshark-common 1.4.4-1 network traffic analyzer - common > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime > > wireshark recommends no packages. > > wireshark suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
