Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10735] wireshark fails to start when run with setuid/setgi
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:57:52 +0000

Comment # 4 on bug 10735 from 
(In reply to yuri from comment #3)
> Thanks, I didn't think of dumpcap first.
> 
> On BSD, adding this line to /etc/devfs.rules:
> add path 'bpf*' mode 0660 group network
> 
> and placing /usr/local/bin/dumpcap into network and 'setgid' it seems more
> generic solution?

Yes.  There are a couple of configure script options you may want to look at:

--with-dumpcap=GROUP     restrict dumpcap to GROUP
--enable-setuid-install  install dumpcap as setuid [default=no]

But there isn't an option to dumpcap as setgid at this time.

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