Wireshark as unprivileged user

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:22:27 +0000

Documentation on the Wireshark wiki seems to not be really up to date, or at least it’s not completely applicable to Fedora 18, so here is what I did to make it work.
After installing Wireshark (and its GUI) with the usual:

yum install wireshark-gnome

It should automatically create a group called wireshark and we are supposed to add our user (mafio in my case) to this group:

usermod -a -G wireshark mafio
newgrp wireshark ### used to force the new settings without having to logout/login

Then issue this last command:

Wireshark on nagg.eu

Wireshark as unprivileged user