[OpenIndiana-discuss] Wireshark GUI broken ?

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Thu May 5 07:08:37 UTC 2016



Am 05.05.16 um 09:02 schrieb Nikola M:
> On 05/ 4/16 01:54 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>> Hello,
>> according to a report on IRC the Wireshark GUI is not working on 
>> recent OI
>> builds anymore.
>>
>> As I am not familiar with it, people who experienced this breakage are
>> welcome to report and provide information so that the issue can be 
>> fixed ;)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Aurelien
>>
> Wireshark GUI opens up for me. (BE date 2016-04-30)
> He reported there is 'pfexec wireshark' in Wireshark icon definition, 
> but one surely needs to have some RBAC priviledges to use network 
> sniffing. (or use sudo wireshark that it says is dangerous and it is..)
>
> If anyone has idea what RBAC priviledges ( /etc/user_attr) are needed 
> for using Wireshark, you can say here, so it could be added to docs on 
> Wiki etc.
>
>
Shouldn't ppriv -eD answer your question?

andreas at saturn ~ $ ppriv -eD wireshark
dumpcap[3400]: missing privilege "net_rawaccess" (euid = 1001, syscall = 
225) needed at secpolicy_net_rawaccess+0x20


Regards
Andreas




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