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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 44339: /trunk/ /trunk/ui/gtk/: main.

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:38:03 -0700

On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:

> I agree, you are able to see the password by using -A, but isn't the same true if you use Wireshark's
> GUI? Wireshark will start dumpcap with the -A command line argument and voila, ps provides it.

Yes, that's a bug, too.  The password should be passed to dumpcap through a pipe, or something such as that.

And, yes, dumpcap should also support -A giving a user name but not a password, and should prompt for a password from the user.

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