Enable wireshark sniffing by not privileged user: ================================================= $ dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common [Response yes] $ sudo adduser $USER wireshark $ sudo groupadd wireshark $ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER $ sudo chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap $ sudo chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap $ sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap $ sudo getcap /usr/bin/dumpcap .