Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Admin Rights query

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:55:48 -0700
Patel, D (Dee) wrote:
I'm trying to package up Ethereal 0.010.00 and although it packaged up without any issues I'm trying to ascertain why the application needs admin rights in order for the capture NIC card info to appear in the Interface box. 

Because that's what WinPcap requires in order to load its driver:

	http://www.winpcap.org/misc/faq.htm#Q-7

You should ask the WinPcap developers about this.
By the way, you should probably be packaging the current version of Ethereal, not 0.10.0 - many bugs, some of which are security issues, have been fixed since 0.10.0: 

	http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/