Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] MacOSX installation and /dev/bpf permissions
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:29:10 -0800
On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Ed Young wrote:

> What I'm not sure about is the best way to adjust the permissions. I can't find any folder named ChmodBPF on the computer. Maybe because I ejected the installation image.

Yes.  Drag-install works well for a lot of applications, but that doesn't mean it can magically work well for *all* applications.  Drag-installing Wireshark to /Applications won't cause the ChmodBPF startup item on the installation image to be dragged to /Library/StartupItems - and dragging that won't cause it to work, as it won't be owned by root:wheel.