Wireshark is telling me to run this comand "sudo usermod -a -G wireshark {your username}". What username does it mean?

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I'm installing wireshark on my Ubuntu PC version 20 and it says I need to:

check to make sure you have sufficient permissions

So I run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common

Than I accepted. But now I don't know what to do next.

The command sudo usermod -a -G wireshark {your username} adds the account with {your username} to the wireshark group which has permission to capture on interfaces without requiring sudo.

So replace {your username} with the name of your account, i.e. the output of whoami, i.e. for me, with account grahamb it would be: sudo usermod -a -G wireshark grahamb

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grahamb

answered 2021-02-02 13:17:08 +0000

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This was my output once running the command with the right username. "usermod: user '{jonathan}' does not exist". And wireshark still said I don't have the right permissions.

Jedrzej (2021-02-05 09:50:51 +0000) edit

The curly braces are not meant to be included, they are part of the placeholder in the example. In your case you should enter sudo usermod -a -G wireshark jonathon.

grahamb (2021-02-05 09:56:57 +0000) edit

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