On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:46:56PM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote: : On Monday 22 September 2003 13:32, Julie Xu wrote: : > I have install the suse 8.2 and try to use ethereal. But, I can only use on : > root, not in my own account. : > : > When I login as my account and run ethereal I have got the following error: : > : > "The capture session could not be installed (socket: Operation not : > permitted). Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and : > that you have the proper interface or pipe specified" : > : > I have shutdown the firewall for testing - not work. Any thing I can do to : > fix the problem? : : You have to have root permissions to run ethereal. It does some pretty heavy : stuff with the NIC. : : This is a good thing; otherwise anyone would be able to sniff the traffic on : the network. sudo(8) is your friend. :) Seriously, if you need to run something as root w/o logging in as root you should check out sudo. --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!