Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark needs root privileges?
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From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:34:04 +0300
Despite warnings about running Wireshark as root, on my Ubuntu 9.10
system the app sees no network interfaces unless I run it as root. Is
this normal? I've googled for "Ubuntu wireshark" and it does seem that
self-styled journalists (blogs) recommend running as root, but I do
not trust them for best practices.

Thanks.

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