Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] start problem, operation not permitted

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:04:55 -0700
itsec.info wrote:


I successfully installed wireshark V0.99.2 under suse 9.3.
When I start wireshark for capturing data I get the following error message:

open_if: socket: Operation not permitted
On Linux, at least by default, in order to capture data you have to run as root. (There might be ways in which an app could be written, and its executable image flagged, so that it has permission to capture packets if not run as root without just being set-UID root.) 
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