Running wireshark with sudo or gksudo (fix) !

[ZEROF]

Hi all,

If you try to run wireshark as root you will get this error :

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sudo wireshark



To fix this error message open terminal any type :

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sudo -i
nano /etc/wireshark/init.lua

Find line disable_lua = false and replace with disable_lua = true

Save and restart wireshark !

[weVeg]

thanks ZEROF, fixed :)

[hackme]

Thanks ... it work!
fixed!

[gayungan]

wonderfull.. nice..awesome

[encrypted]

Hello ZEROF,

I want to thank you for posting that info - simply because I was doing a lot more work for the same product. Here is what I did to run as non-root but capture packets:

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sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin
... then I had to create groups and lock that in..

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groupadd wireshark
usermod -a -G wireshark stretch
newgrp wireshark
chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap
chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap
lastly... you had to give the ability to capture..

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setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap


I think I rather fiddle with the /etc/wireshark/init.lua more than anything else.

Ciao.
E.

[ZEROF]

Hi encrypted,

I know about that solution, but i preffered to find why this true/false issue made me crazy :).

Cheers !