Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4657] Wireshark runs firefox as root
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4657

Marc Milgram <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Marc Milgram <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-04-08 12:58:33 PDT ---
I did some more testing.

In RHEL 5.4, if firefox is already running, Wireshark when run as root will use
the existing firefox - otherwise it will start firefox as root.

In Fedora 12, wireshark when run as root always opens a new instance of
firefox.

This is probably not a Wireshark issue (though it would be nice if we could run
99.999% of Wireshark as a normal user, and the bit to grab packets off the net
as root).

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