running wireshark-gtk on Mageia

running wireshark-gtk on Mageia

Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solomon at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 19:30:55 IDT 2016


Yes - I did add my user is in the wireshark group but that didn't help.

As I wrote, the help screen suggests running: 
setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap

but that results in:
sudo: setcap: command not found



On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:54:36 +0300
Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:

> Did you add your user to the wireshark group ?
> 
> --
> Rabin
> 
> On 13 June 2016 at 15:39, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to use wireshark-gtk on my Mageia box, but I'm getting
> > the following message:
> > "No interface can be used for capturing in this sytem with the
> > current configuration.
> > (couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process Permission denied)"
> >
> > Needless to say, I don't want to run wireshark as root.
> >
> > Based on the Wireshark help, I tried:
> >
> > [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ sudo setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip
> > CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap
> >
> > and got:
> > sudo: setcap: command not found
> >
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Shlomo Solomon
> > http://the-solomons.net
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