Fixing wireshark superuser error: "Lua: Error during loading"

Hello,

Whenever i try starting wireshark, i always get this this error

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Error during loading:[string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:46: dofile has been disabled due to running Wireshark as superuser. See http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSet...turePrivileges for help in running Wireshark as an unprivileged user.

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I found a simple fix for this.

Go to usr-share-wireshark, open init.lua with a text editor, then change "disable_lua = false" to "disable_lua = true".

Got this fix from this website:

http://siriusinfoblog.blogspot.com/2...g-loading.html

From wiki.wireshark.org I use this:

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Setting network privileges for dumpcap
1. Ensure your linux kernel and filesystem supports File Capabilities and also you have
installed necessary tools.
2. "setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap"
3. Start Wireshark as non-root and ensure you see the list of interfaces and can do
capture.

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Or edit /usr/share/init.lua and disable the code which prints the message and disables the capabilites. Use "--" as the other comments are done for each of the lines 39-50.

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Originally Posted by my68_

Code:

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Setting network privileges for dumpcap
1. Ensure your linux kernel and filesystem supports File Capabilities and also you have
installed necessary tools.
2. "setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap"
3. Start Wireshark as non-root and ensure you see the list of interfaces and can do
capture.

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It should be noted also that in order to perform step two in this process you need to do it as root user otherwise you will be told "bash: setcap: command not found". You can't even access the man page for setcap unless you are the root user. Once you have perfomed the operation you can then go back to being a user with admin rights and start wireshark happy and free.

gedit /usr/share/wireshark/init.lua
then
-- Set disable_lua to true to disable Lua support.
disable_lua = true //set it to true

if this does not kick a terminal gedit /usr/share/wireshark/init.lua then line 39 if running_superuser Then replace superuser by user for those in root and the message will disappear ula

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Originally Posted by kaboyish

Hello,

Whenever i try starting wireshark, i always get this this error

.

I found a simple fix for this.

Go to usr-share-wireshark, open init.lua with a text editor, then change "disable_lua = false" to "disable_lua = true".

Got this fix from this website:

http://siriusinfoblog.blogspot.com/2...g-loading.html

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change run_user_scripts_when_superuser = false to
change run_user_scripts_when_superuser = true

and then change the if condition
if running_superuser then to
if not running_superuser then

of course this solution for who logging in as root.

""" when i do what u say wireshark pops up than disapears ! what is the solution i changed it to true but now it doesnt even load !!!

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Originally Posted by kaboyish

Hello,

Whenever i try starting wireshark, i always get this this error

.

I found a simple fix for this.

Go to usr-share-wireshark, open init.lua with a text editor, then change "disable_lua = false" to "disable_lua = true".

Got this fix from this website:

http://siriusinfoblog.blogspot.com/2...g-loading.html

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Originally Posted by redri

""" when i do what u say wireshark pops up than disapears ! what is the solution i changed it to true but now it doesnt even load !!!

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Go back into the script and redo what you did and follow eXecuteR advice in his post.

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Originally Posted by P373

Go back into the script and redo what you did and follow eXecuteR advice in his post.

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I've tried all of this and it still will not work. It either will not show any traffic for wlan0mon or wireshark will just close out.

Hi guys....I just fix the error

Disable _lua =false
Run _user_scripts_when_superuser=true
If not running_superuser then



Just change this much on init.lua

search dofile(DATA_DIR.."console.lua") to replace --dofile(DATA_DIR.."console.lua")

Isn't it better if you run wireshark without root?