[Bug 513903] Re: wireshark must be run as root unless wireshark-common is reconfigured

2018-06-10 Thread Guy Harris
It appears that the Ubuntu policy is that, if dumpcap is to be given elevated privileges, it be executable only by its owner (presumably root) and by members of the group that owns it, which appears to be the "wireshark" group. The intent is presumably not to give *everybody* on the system suffici

[Bug 1477032] [NEW] Time & Date time zone chooser doesn't offer a full set of cities

2015-07-22 Thread Guy Harris
Public bug reported: If I start the Time & Date chooser in 15.04, the "Time & Date" pane does not let me to specify a city by typing its name into the "Location" box (I can type a name, but it's not obvious how to make it select that city), nor does it offer a drop-down list of cities in that box.

[Bug 1213173] Re: Does not handle 802.1Q tagged frames correctly

2015-04-13 Thread Guy Harris
> If it IS an issue with the kernel building a new version of libpcap and tcpdump will not help. If it's an issue with the kernel changing the way it handles VLAN tags - i.e., whether it leaves them in the packet data, so that the filter code in the kernel sees them as part of the packet data, or

[Bug 1213173] Re: Does not handle 802.1Q tagged frames correctly

2015-04-12 Thread Guy Harris
What happens if you build a shiny new version of libpcap from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/ and then build a shiny new version of tcpdump: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump with it? -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 513903] Re: wireshark must be run as root unless wireshark-common is reconfigured

2012-04-04 Thread Guy Harris
If you're going to create a group for this, give it a neutral name rather than a Wireshark-specific name; this doesn't just apply to Wireshark, it applies to any other program that either directly opens PF_PACKET/SOCK_RAW sockets or that calls libpcap to do so, e.g. tcpdump. On OS X, the Wireshark