Re: Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Maybe we can offer something via debconf during installation to ask users if they'd like non-root users to access dumpcap. But I guess the question there is to determine how to provide access to dumpcap (there were some great ideas discussed above). Having the GUI run as non-root sounds like a gre

Re: Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:56:05PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 19 juin 2009 à 12:54 +0200, Jaap Keuter a écrit : > What I've noticed is that Debian (still) requires the user to run > Wireshark with root credentials in order to be able to launch a > network > capture. Otherwise the

Re: Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 19 juin 2009 à 12:54 +0200, Jaap Keuter a écrit : > > What I've noticed is that Debian (still) requires the user to run > > Wireshark with root credentials in order to be able to launch a > > network > > capture. Otherwise the network interfaces won't even be visible. > > This problem,

Re: Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote: > I'm contacting you as I got thinking about network capture and the > security implications of that. > What I've noticed is that Debian (still) requires the user to run > Wireshark with root credentials in order to be able to launch a

Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Jaap Keuter
As suggested by Thijs forwarded to the dev list. Please CC me as I' m not on the list. Regards Jaap Begin forwarded message: From: "Jaap Keuter" Date: 17 juni 2009 17:17:53 GMT+02:00 To: secur...@debian.org Subject: On Wireshark and network capture in general Hi, I'm contacting you as I