[release-notes] Wireshark permission changes BZ#680165

John J. McDonough jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Sun May 8 19:22:02 UTC 2011


commit b59460476022a344e95cbb872fc4cff0672e54dd
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sun May 8 15:21:53 2011 -0400

    Wireshark permission changes BZ#680165

 en-US/Networking.xml       |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 en-US/Revision_History.xml |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Networking.xml b/en-US/Networking.xml
index 144e9a6..8195135 100644
--- a/en-US/Networking.xml
+++ b/en-US/Networking.xml
@@ -128,6 +128,28 @@ KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="public"
     </para>
   </section>
 
-
+  <section>
+    <title>Wireshark permissions changes</title>
+    <indexterm>
+      <primary>Wireshark</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+    <indexterm>
+      <primary>tshark</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <application>Wireshark</application> in Fedora 15 uses Linux
+      capabilities instead of console helper. As result, the
+      <application>Wireshark</application> users are no longer
+      required to enter the root password.  To grant a user permission
+      to capture network traffic using
+      <application>Wireshark</application> or
+      <application>tshark</application>, the system administrator
+      should add the user to <command>wireshark</command> group. The
+      <application>Wireshark</application> or
+      <application>tshark</application> application then runs as
+      ordinary user, only the capturing backend runs with permission
+      to sniff on the network.
+    </para>
+  </section>
 
 </section>
diff --git a/en-US/Revision_History.xml b/en-US/Revision_History.xml
index 7507873..f02ec4f 100644
--- a/en-US/Revision_History.xml
+++ b/en-US/Revision_History.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,22 @@
   <simpara>
     <revhistory>
       <revision>
+	<revnumber>14.99</revnumber>
+	<date>Sun May  8 2011</date>
+	<author>
+	  <firstname>John</firstname>
+	  <surname>McDonough</surname>
+	  <email>jjmcd at fedoraproject.org</email>
+	</author>
+	<revdescription>
+	  <simplelist>
+	    <member>Memory (BZ#699770, 701780)</member>
+	    <member>Xfce case (BZ#699977)</member>
+	    <member>Wireshark permission changes (BZ#680165)</member>
+	  </simplelist>
+	</revdescription>
+      </revision>
+      <revision>
 	<revnumber>14.98</revnumber>
 	<date>Fri Apr 15 2011</date>
 	<author>


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