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 -- Sent from my last battery. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130520/939453b4/attachment.pgp>