Re: Wireshark on Ubuntu

nooneinparticular314159@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I installed Wireshark on Ubuntu. It does not appear to be able to see
any network interfaces when running as an unprivileged user, and only
captures if I run it with sudo, which is a security risk, since it
shouldn't be running as a privileged user.

It shouldn't?
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html/#ChCapPrerequisitesSection

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