Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] About Wireshark on Linux RedHat 5.6

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:48:19 -0700
On 8/23/11 12:34 PM, Rodrigo Nogueira wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I´m having problems to configure wireshark to open on my system without
> root privilegies.
>  
> I read your page about orientation but can´t get understand this part:
>  
> "
> # groupadd -g packetcapture
> # chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap
> # chgrp packetcapture /usr/bin/dumpcap
> # setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/dumpcap
>  
> In the last line, the setcap command isn´t recognize.

It looks like setcap is part of the libcap package (which is different
from libpcap) on Red Hat. Do you have that installed?