Concern over running WireShark as root.
- by George Edison
I started WireShark on my Ubuntu machine and discovered that there were no interfaces I could listen to. So I launched it as root. This gave me access to all the interfaces, but gave me a warning:
Running WireShark as user 'root' in group 'root'. This could be dangerous...
So, is it dangerous? Otherwise, how can I listen to the interfaces?