Wireshark setup Linux for nonroot user

Question

Hello there

I've setup Wireshark using 'apt-get install wireshark' and followed the setup-configuration for non-root user (see Wireshark doesn't see my interface).

What I finally did, was following:

sudo groupadd wireshark
sudo usermod -a -G wireshark dionysius
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common (and said there YES)

But after that i still cannot see any interface. What am I missing?

edit: if it does matter i'm using linux mint 12

Accepted Answer

See the answer from a duplicate post.

You don't need to manually add the "wireshark" group; dpkg-reconfigure does it for you. Try removing the group (and your user from the group), run dpkg-reconfigure, add your user back to the group, and then, re-login. I verified these steps in Mint 12:

$ sudo apt-get install wireshark
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common 
$ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER
$ gnome-session-quit --logout --no-prompt

Answer 2

Improvement on https://ask.wireshark.org/answer_link/8012/ helloworld's answer

So you dont have to restart gnome, use newgrp to switch groups

$ sudo apt-get install wireshark
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common 
$ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER
$ newgrp wireshark

Answer 3

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Log out and log in again. Adding a currently logged in user to a group using groupadd does not take effect until the user has logged out.

answered 14 Dec '11, 10:55

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did that already multiple times (and tested now again). I don't get interfaces without sudo :(

to be sure everything i did is correct?!

[email protected] ~ $ grep "wireshark" /etc/group
wireshark:x:1001:dionysius

(16 Dec '11, 07:33) Dionysius

That was the issue for me, thanks!

(30 Jul '15, 07:48) thewade

Answer 4

dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common the right answer is no