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Concern over running Wireshark as root
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Mar 15, 20267963 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I started Wireshark on my Ubuntu machine and discovered that there were no interfaces I could listen to. So I launched it as root. This gave me access to all the interfaces, but gave me a warning: Running Wireshark as user 'root' in group 'root'. This could be dangerous... So, is it dangerous? Othe…
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Fix for: Concern over running Wireshark as root
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Wireshark is quickly approaching two million lines of code. You shouldn't run them as root for the same reasons that you shouldn't run Firefox, OpenOffice, GIMP, or any other similarly-sized application as root. On Linux you don't need to be root to…
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