Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] wireshark multi-platform setup memos

["Xiao Li" <xiao.k.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I didn't know the trick of modifying the permission of dumpcap
-Thanks for pointing this out.

regards
-Xiao

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These are nice articles. There's one big problem though: root access.
> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/05/04/2387266.aspx
>
> You state that you need root access to build and run Wireshark. That is untrue
> and potentially dangerous. First of all leave it out of the build, so:
>
> ... execute "./autogen.sh && ./configure" in command line....
>
> You can run Wireshark straight up, without becoming root, to read in capture
> files. If you want to capture you can modify the permissions of dumpcap, the
> capture utility, to setuid root. Then Wireshark can capture, without becoming root.
>
> You may want to incorporate these notes into your memo.
>
> Thanx,
> Jaap
>
> Xiao Li wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   In recent experience of writing wireshark plugin and deploying it
>> onto different platforms, I have created following memos. Hope they
>> can be useful for other ones' trouble-shooting.
>>
>> -Xiao
>>
>> How to write a simplest wireshark dissector(under Linux)
>> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/05/04/2387266.aspx
>>
>> Memo for Wireshark installation under Solaris
>> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/05/05/2387968.aspx
>>
>> Memo of Wireshark building under Windows
>> http://blog.csdn.net/vastsmile/archive/2008/09/23/2966970.aspx
>
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