Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Wireshark error when run by normal user

You need to add your normal username to the wireshark group:
sudo gpasswd -a yourusername wireshark

*EDIT*
This next is the WRONG solution.  Really... you guys shouldn't read my blog ;-)
...I am keeping for historical purposes:

Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied

da... what??

-rwxr-xr-- 1 root wireshark 68688 Jan 13 12:36 dumpcap
Oh...
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/dumpcap
$ ll /usr/bin/dumpcap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wireshark 68688 Jan 13 12:36 dumpcap

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8 comments:

  1. NUCOMay 25, 2012 at 11:25 AM

    Thanks!!!, Works great.

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  2. AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM

    Thanks!

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2012 at 3:05 AM

    Thanks a lot.. i tried many solutions and they didn't work !!

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM

    Thx l have tried many forums tried everything, till l have found the easy and very well done steps on this forum many thanks

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM

    awesome!!!thxxxxx

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  6. Antony Mapfumo - Blockchain SolutionsOctober 3, 2012 at 12:40 AM

    Worked. Thanks.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 30, 2012 at 1:16 AM

    Great !

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  8. AnonymousNovember 21, 2012 at 10:59 PM

    IMHO you should add user to wireshark group to solve this problem...

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