[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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