Mark Haney wrote:
On 06/26/2012 12:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
But, make sure you install wireshark and wireshark-gnome.... and make sure
you add
yourself to the wireshark group.
That's very interesting. When I did the initial install (using sudo yum install
wireshark) this is what yum told me:
=====================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch
Version Repository Size
=====================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
wireshark x86_64
1.6.6-1.fc16 updates 10 M
Installing for dependencies:
libsmi x86_64
0.4.8-6.fc15 fedora 2.3 M
Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package (+1 Dependent package)
Apparently that doesn't install the binary for wireshark as I didn't get that
until I installed wireshark-gnome. Shoudn't this be a dependency of wireshark?
I am not sure I understand why wireshark-gnome is NOT a dependency of wireshark.
Wireshark works fine without the GUI, but in a very limited fashion. The gnome
wrapper just lets you use it in a convenient manner.
Ed: I found that there is now a wireshark group, the first time I tried to use
it on fc17, Anyone have a good idea *why?* It's not that the unprivileged user
can just grab packets off an interface or anything, and while I don't see the
average user having a use for it, I've been wrong about that before, with
legitimate useful stuff being done by people I would not have suspected would
understand the capability, much less make use of it.
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"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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