Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4657] Wireshark runs firefox as root
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4657

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-04-08 13:03:08 PDT ---
"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"

The bit to grab packets off the net is, at least in 1.2.x or later, called
"dumpcap", and it can be made set-UID root.  (Gerald, did we do that in 1.0?) 
Currently, Wireshark and TShark 1.2.x get the list of interfaces themselves,
although, in the current development tree, they run dumpcap to do that as well.

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