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Re: Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP))
From: Marc Luethi <netztier () bluewin ch>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:41:52 +0100
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 22:11 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote:
I though of installing wireshark on disk on key,
That won't help. WinPcap needs to hook into the Operating System's network stack, and to do that, you need admin priviledges. You'll need a priviledged user to install WinPcap and if you want, it's service that will allow unprivileged users to capture traffic.
but again when installing winpcap it gives me a privilege error.
q.e.d. You _can_ run Wireshark as unpriviledged user and without the WinPcap service, but you're limited to analysis of capture files that are obtained by other means (e.g. from running tcpdump on another system). WinPcap is only needed if you want to capture packets on the system you are using. regards Marc ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP)) Mark Ryden (Feb 13)
- Re: Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP)) Martin Visser (Feb 13)
- Re: Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP)) Marc Luethi (Feb 13)
- Re: Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP)) kenny sigafoose (Feb 13)
- Re: Installing wireshark on a PC without administrative privileges (windows XP)) Karthik Balaguru (Feb 14)