Comment 13 for bug 513903

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Vangelis Tasoulas (cyberang3l) wrote :

The automated way to fix it using dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common is not working for me on 13.04.

I have to run the following commands:
$ sudo -s
$ groupadd wireshark
$ usermod -a -G wireshark <yourUserName>
$ apt-get install pcaputils
$ chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap
$ chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap
$ setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap

Note: I had wireshark working already by running these commands in my 12.10 installation. After the upgrade to 13.04 wireshark stopped working for simple users again and I had to run only the last 4 commands as the group wireshark already existed.