Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4569] Trying to Run Wireshark as "root" causes system to c
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:17:27 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4569

--- Comment #1 from Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-03-11 08:17:25 CET ---
It's not a good plan to run a multimillion line application as root, especially
when it doesn't need to. Look for privilege separation, setuid root dumpcap,
etc.

What happens if you run dumpcap from the command line?

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