macos - Wireshark - you don't have permission to capture on that device mac

Question

I installed Wireshark and during the installation it showed an error but the installation itself completed. When I ran the program and tried to capture packets on my network, it showed this error:

I'm new to mac so i don't even know how to properly ask.

Could someone help me?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41126943/wireshark-you-dont-have-permission-to-capture-on-that-device-mac

Answer 1

According to User: gmale's answer on ask.wireshark.org, he solved his problem in this way and I'm sure that it could solve yours as well. It says:

1- Open Terminal

To see your exact user name (for me that was AliGht)

2- Type 'whoami'

3- execute the following commands:

cd /dev
sudo chown AliGht:admin bp*

and enter your computer password:

4- now type this command:

ls -la | grep bp

The last command will display a list of files such as:

5- Make sure all of them have your user name and admin as the user/group. For some reason, the last one didn't get assigned properly so I had to run the command:

sudo chown AliGht:admin bpf4

so the last command fixed my problem as you see in the last image:

Done!

If your WireShark is open then close it and open it again.

All credits of this tutorial goes to user gmale on ask.wireshark.org,

If you want to open WireShark always as administrator then take a look to another post which I created a shortcut for it via Applescript, and this is the only way which you can open the WireShark always as administrator even when you turn off/on your mac.