Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4657] Wireshark runs firefox as root
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:50:50 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4657

Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-04-08 08:50:48 PDT ---
Are you sure it worked differently before?  With Redhat's Wireshark package (as
opposed to a self compiled/installed one or maybe on a system where dumpcap was
installed setuid-root so you didn't have to run Wireshark as root)?

The thing is that Redhat has that console wrapper program (which prompts you
for root's password).  When you enter the root password, Wireshark is started
as root and doesn't really know about Redhat's console helper stuff (and thus
doesn't know your normal user information).

I just tried it on RHEL 4 with Wireshark 1.0.3 and sure enough, Firefox was
started as root when I ran Wireshark as root (through the console helper
wrapper).

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