Greeting, 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? Any comments will be appreciated Thanks in advance Julie Xu Data Communication Team Information Technology Directorate University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797
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. --
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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!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 00:32, Julie Xu wrote:
Greeting,
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?
Any comments will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Julie Xu
Data Communication Team Information Technology Directorate University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797
A quick and easy fix to your problem is to without reading alot of documentation is to navigate to ethereal using the Kmenu: Kmenu ------> Internet -------> Tools ---------> Ethereal Drag the entry in the menu to your desktop. Choose copy when prompted. And then change it's properties to now run under the UID of 0: Right click your new icon. Click on "Properties" in the popup menu. Find the "Execute" tab and select it. At the bottom of this tab will be the entry stating; "Run as a different user:". Select it. Type in root as the user. Then click OK. Done. ;) - -- Thomas Jones Linux-Howtos Network Administrator OpenGPG Key: 0x6A3DF6E9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/bvuGQT2komo99ukRAkWpAJ9BhE/UFq45BUw7y+fE+JtC32I3dwCfXqwy tbivq7h69xVM8zLBfBhz1HY= =Th+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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