Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC Projects
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:55:56 -0700
On Apr 10, 2013, at 8:21 PM, Vishwajit Kolathur <ajit.kolathur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a possibly newbie question, I just wanted to know what the drawbacks really are to following the first method, the one where the normal user is added to the wireshark group.

The only drawback I can see is that, if your OS has a limited size to the group set, you might already have a full group set and not be able to be added to the wireshark group.