Thanks, Balint. Running dpkg-reconfigure worked for me. And thanks for clarifying the README.Debian for future users.
Brandon On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Bálint Réczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> wrote: > 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
