On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:13:05PM -0500, Paul graf wrote:
> Hello, I have installed the 'wireshark' through the LinuxMint13
> repositories and have discovered that I do not want to run the program
> as root which by default it seems to be set up to do.
[snip]
> So further investigation into the '/usr/bin/dumpcap' directory yields the following:
> 
> -rwxr-xr--  1 root   wireshark  66K Apr 12  2012 dumpcap
> 
> So should I be using 'chown' here to change root to paul?

No.

> Paul is the user's name who is trying to run 'wireshark'. Do I need to add Paul to the wireshark group?

Yes.

Then you need to log out, and log back in as 'paul'.

Cheers,
florin

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