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mostafasedaghat

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From: Rasht - Iran

Registered: 2012-01-18

Posts: 5

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how to run etherape with ordinary user?

hi
when run etherape show this massege:

No capture device found or insufficient privileges.
Only file replay will be available.
EtherApe must be run with administrative privileges (e.g. root) to enable live capture.
Pcap error: no suitable device found

i create group etherape with this ownership

┌─[root@mymind] - [/etc] - [Sat Feb 04, 12:02]
└─[$] <> groupadd etherape 
┌─[root@mymind] - [/etc] - [Sat Feb 04, 12:02]
└─[$] <> chgrp etherape /usr/bin/etherape  

and add my user to this groups

┌─[root@mymind] - [/etc] - [Sat Feb 04, 12:02]
└─[$] <> usermod -G  root,network,http,mysql,dbus,mem,bin,daemon,gdm,audio,video,rfkill,wheel,disk,sys,etherape mostafa   

how to run etherape with ordinary user(without root privilege)?

Last edited by mostafasedaghat (2012-02-03 20:37:44)

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: how to run etherape with ordinary user?

how to run etherape with ordinary user(without root privilege)?

You can't. It requires root to set network card attributes, which can only be set with administrative priviledges. But it should be no problem to start it with sudo.

hleung

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Registered: 2011-01-10

Posts: 20

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Re: how to run etherape with ordinary user?

sudo won't do.

- Install gksu (sudo pacman -S gksu).
- gksudo etherape &

That's how I run it.

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