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Bug 502739

Summary:	switch to using PolicyKit
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	wireshark	Assignee:	Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	olivier.crete, rvokal, smohan
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2011-02-17 14:53:36 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	502765

Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 04:31:53 UTC

Description of problem:

usermode/consolehelper is deprecated since Fedora has a better framework now
called PolicyKit. Please switch to using that instead

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne

Comment 1 John Poelstra 2009-06-08 20:18:37 UTC

Added 'FutureFeature' keyword to avoid rawhide base

Comment 2 Olivier Crête 2010-06-14 20:01:15 UTC

Actually, wireshark should run as regular user. The part that needs higher privileges has been split as "dumpcap" and should be launched using the proper polkit magic.

Comment 3 Radek Vokál 2011-02-17 14:53:36 UTC

The change has already happened in rawhide. Wireshark now has its own group and user has to be a member of this group. PolicyKit support is not planned.

Comment 4 Olivier Crête 2011-03-23 22:45:57 UTC

I see that this is done in F16, any chance to push that to F15? It will mitigate the next round of CVEs