workstation-ostree-config

#326 Adding a wireshark (and usbmon) GIDs to groups
Closed: Invalid by mruprich. Opened by mruprich.

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Hi,

I am regularly getting bugzillas about errors in %pre scriptlet for wireshark - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148786. Wireshark requires group wireshark (and usbmon group for monitoring USBs) in the system to be able to run. But the addition is not possible during install for obvious reasons. I understand that there are efforts to enable this but would it be possible to add wireshark(and usbmon) to the default list of groups in a similar fashion as tcpdump? This way wireshark would work pretty much the same for Silverblue users as it does for Fedora users.

If the answer is yes, what is the process to do so? Should I open a PR? Wireshark and usbmon don't have pre-allocated GID as tcpdump does so should I just choose GID that is not yet used?

Thank you for any help and feedback.

Regards,
Michal Ruprich

Hey,
Thanks for filling that. We usually track bugs in https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues.
i'll take a look.

Hi @siosm ,
sorry, I wasn't sure which was the right place. I can move the issue there if that's better?

That would be best. Thanks

Okok, moving.

Metadata Update from @mruprich:
- Issue close_status updated to: Invalid
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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