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Update the privileges section. 

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@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ distribution. This is available online at
2. Licensing.
Wireshark is released under the GNU General Public License. Make sure
your package complies with this license, or we send in the marmots.
Wireshark is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Make sure your package complies with this license.
3. Privileges.
@ -40,16 +40,28 @@ privileges have been moved out of the GUI to dumpcap.
WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER ONE POINT FIVE MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO
NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT.
If desired, you can use the configure option "--enable-setuid-install=yes"
to install dumpcap and TShark setuid root. This will allow normal users
to capture traffic.
There are two configure-time options on non-Windows systems that affect
the privileges a normal user needs to capture traffic and list
interfaces: "--enable-setuid-install" and "--with-libcap". Setting
"--enable-setuid-install" to "yes" will install TShark and dumpcap
setuid root. This is necessary for non-root users to be able to capture
on most systems, e.g. on Linux or FreeBSD if the user doesn't have
permissions to access /dev/bpf*. It is disabled by default.
If the "--with-libcap" option is enabled, dumpcap will try to drop any
setuid privileges it may have while retaining the CAP_NET_ADMIN and
CAP_NET_RAW capabilities. It is enabled by default, and requires the
Linux capabilities library.
Additionally, warnings are now displayed when Wireshark and TShark are
run as root.
4. Customization.
Custom version information can be added by creating a file called
"version.conf". See make-version.pl for details. If your package
contains significant changes we recommend that you use this to
differentiate it from official Wireshark releases.
"version.conf" and running "make-version.pl -p". See make-version.pl for
details. If your package contains significant changes we recommend that
you use this to differentiate it from official Wireshark releases.
4.1. Source-level version detection.