Priviledge Seperation

Posted Dec 10, 2015 13:20 UTC (Thu) by jlayton (subscriber, #31672)
In reply to: Priviledge Seperation by pwfxq
Parent article: Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

If you're running on an OS that has file capabilities, then you don't need to be root to run a capture. On recent Fedora, for instance you just need to be in the "wireshark" group and you can run a live capture as an unprivileged user.