Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] eth0 missing
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:41:41 -0700
On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:23 AM, firstname lastname wrote:

> You need to open wireshark with root privileges.

You need to avoid opening Wireshark with root privileges, as I said in my reply.  You need to arrange that the much smaller program "dumpcap" has sufficient privileges, which, on many OSes - including, I think, most modern versions of most Linux distributions - does *NOT* mean root privileges.