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Accessing hardware network interfaces

I use Wireshark on Ubuntu 22.04 .

First of all, it was not exactly clear which colour was meant to select the Yes or No answer on the configuration whether a non-superuser should be able to capture packets of network interfaces. I thought it was the red background when I selected a button.

When I selected that non-superusers should be allowed, I haven't seen the hardware network interfaces.

When I seleceted that they are not, the hardware network interfaces showed up, but when I tried to capture packets, the system said I cannot access that network interface.

The solution was to run Wireshark with sudo.

Is this a bug in Wireshark or I didn't do something correctly?

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Accessing hardware network interfaces

I use Wireshark on Ubuntu 22.04 .

First of all, it was not exactly clear which colour was meant to select the Yes or No answer on the configuration whether a non-superuser should be able to capture packets of network interfaces. I thought it was the red background when I selected a button.

When I selected that non-superusers should be allowed, I haven't seen the hardware network interfaces.

When I seleceted that they are not, the hardware network interfaces showed up, but when I tried to capture packets, the system said I cannot access that network interface.

The solution was to run Wireshark with sudo.

Is this a bug in Wireshark or I didn't do something correctly?

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Accessing hardware network interfaces

I use Wireshark on Ubuntu 22.04 .

First of all, it was not exactly clear which colour was meant to select the Yes or No answer on the configuration whether a non-superuser should be able to capture packets of network interfaces. I thought it was the red background when I selected a button.

When I selected that non-superusers should be allowed, I haven't seen the hardware network interfaces.

When I seleceted that they are not, the hardware network interfaces showed up, but when I tried to capture packets, the system said I cannot access that network interface.

The solution was to run Wireshark with sudo.

Is this a bug in Wireshark or I didn't do something correctly?