The previous article introduced the installation of Wireshark in Ubuntu system
This article introduces the configuration and start-up of Wireshark in Ubuntu system;
After installation, run the $ wiresharkdirectly at the terminal. For security reasons, ordinary users are not able to open the network card device to grab the packet,Wireshark does not recommend the user through sudo in root Operation under Permissions. Otherwise, you will be prompted with permissions issues such as:
Workaround:
$ sudo vim/etc/group
After "wireshark:x:134:" Enter the currently logged in user name, I am "ranxf" here.
Tip: Press i for INSERT, then enter the user name, press ESC, and then enter ": wq!" to save.
After completing the above steps, you need to log off and log back in to make the settings effective and open again.
You can use the command line to enter Wireshark to start the line, or you can search for Wireshark on the search computer . no permission prompt message after startup.
Select the name of the network card to crawl, I have two network cards, need to catch the first net card capture information, the following choices.
Ubuntu16.04 Desktop System How to configure and start Wireshark