9.10 Karmic upgrades removes Wireshark (as root)
Bug #471046 reported by
Matt Burkhardt
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #513903: wireshark must be run as root unless wireshark-common is reconfigured.
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This bug report was converted into a question: question #88240: 9.10 Karmic upgrades removes Wireshark (as root).
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| wireshark (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: wireshark
When the upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, the process removed Wireshark (as root) from the list of menu options and left Wireshark. I ended up having to do a little digging to recreate the right command to get Wireshark to run as root. Otherwise, it does not list any capture devices.
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| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote | #1 |
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| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote | #2 |
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| status: | New → Invalid |
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| Alexandr Udovichenko (gragdanin) wrote | #3 |
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Indeed, it is no longer there is the package, so this is "expected" behavior, upgrade or otherwise...
Apparently, this was done in the Debian packaging in version 1.2.1-2:
wireshark (1.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* added option to install dumpcap with setuid root
* removed wireshark-
* dropped umask patch
-- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:30:03 +0200
This is because running Wireshark as root potentially puts you at risk, as it could compromise your computer in the event that a malicious packet was intercepted or willingly sent to the capture device.
I'm converting this to a question, in order to provide the information on how to deal with this special case.