Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 3523] Inconsistent results of started_with_special_privs()
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:18:07 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3523


Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  2009-06-10 13:17:46 PDT ---
BTW, Wireshark is a Really Big Program (as is TShark), and, even without user
plugins, you might want to think twice about running it as root.  You might
want to consider making dumpcap set-UID root instead.

(I'm also not sure whether GTK+, when running as root, will load user theming
plugins; Wireshark is a GTK+ application....)

That would mean that anybody could do captures; perhaps dumpcap needs to have
some way of specifying which users are allowed to use it.


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