Re: Lua error while running Wireshark as root (was: Re: Wireshark on Kali linux)

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Feb 5, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl> wrote:

> The last option would permit *users* to invoke arbitrary commands as
> root if they run Wireshark with sudo or as root user. I think that might
> not be a bad idea after all:

        [existing reasons elided]

- They shouldn't be running *Wireshark* as root unless they're on a system such as Kali where everything runs as root; 
if they need root privileges in order to capture, they should make dumpcap set-UID root.  If they're silly enough to 
run *Wireshark* as root when it doesn't need to run as root, my sympathies if they get pwned is limited.
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