Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10406] Need better mechanisms for allowing non-privileged users to capture net

Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10406] Need better mechanisms for allowing non-privileged

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:03:06 +0000

Comment # 9 on bug 10406 from teo8976@gmail.com

I ran dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
I chose to allow users of the wireshark group to capture packets.
I added myself to the wireshark group.

This hasn't changed a thing: when I run wireshark there's no network interface
listed, and I get this message:

(of for god's sake, i cannot copy and paste it, well I'll attach an image)

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