Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How to disable lua support from command line ?
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 23:11:09 -0700
On Jul 1, 2019, at 8:34 PM, Matt <mattator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I want my program to determistically run on other computers as well,
> thus I can't assume anything in advance about users' lua script. I had
> not really thought about compiled plugins but that's the same issue,
> these optional modules may alter the way my program expects tshark to
> behave.

I.e., you want a "disable all user plugins" option.

If you *really* want the program to run deterministically for all users, you also need a "disable the user's personal configuration" option.

> I believe for my usecase, the best is to wrap the tshark call with an
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME pointing nowhere or to a vanilla wireshark config. Not
> sure if there is any difficulty though, I will have a try.

As long as the "other computers" aren't running Windows, where XDG_CONFIG_HOME has no effect....