Wireshark Notes

Enabling non-root users to capture packets (Debian/Ubuntu/Kali)

Normally, non-root users cannot capture packets. But there is a way to enable non-root users.

You can reconfigure the installation of wireshark to enable non-root user packet capture:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common

Now members of the 'wireshark' group can capture packets. Now all you need to do is add your user to the 'wireshark' group:

$ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark username