Indicate what you're supposed to do when running dpkg-reconfigure
wireshark-common, and indicate that you have to run it as root using
sudo.
Emphasize in README.Debian, and indicate in the permission failure
secondary message, that you have to add users to the "wireshark" group
after doing that, and that a user may have to log out and log in again
to make this change take effect.
Bug: 14847
Change-Id: Ia83ff8e92bd2f00b6c3779272322a40201416da0
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/28206
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Handling security fixes in source package wireshark
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer and it's ability to perform deep
packet inspection in live traffic may encourage users to use Wireshark/Tshark
as a part of an intrusion detection or traffic monitoring system.
In that case, please note that Wireshark/Tshark may contain remotely
triggerable bugs causing crashes or allowing code injection.
Bugs allowing code injection will be fixed in regular Debian Security
Advisories, but fixes for pure crash bugs may be delayed.
-- Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:33 +0200