[How To] Fix Wireshark as root

Hi bloggers, i have some problem to running wirehark as root in kali linux. Because kali linux not provide normal user by default and for pentester, so you can customize or run tools whatever you want.
This problem in wireshark, when i run wireshark with root and got message “wireshark … bla .. bla … etc” and for fix this problem follow my instruction.

open terminal/konsole then edit with nano:

#nano /etc/wireshark/init.lua

And then insert this script:

-- init.lua  
--  
-- initialize wireshark's lua  
--  
-- This file is going to be executed before any other lua script.  
-- It can be used to load libraries, disable functions and more.  
--  
-- $Id: template-init.lua 49730 2013-06-03 22:03:32Z etxrab $  
--  
-- Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer  
-- By Gerald Combs  
-- Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs  
--  
-- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or  
-- modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License  
-- as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2  
-- of the License, or (at your option) any later version.  
--  
-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,  
-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of  
-- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the  
-- GNU General Public License for more details.  
--  
-- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License  
-- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software  
-- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.  

-- Set disable_lua to true to disable Lua support.  
disable_lua = false  
if disable_lua then  
return  
end  

-- If set and we are running with special privileges this setting  
-- tells whether scripts other than this one are to be run.  
run_user_scripts_when_superuser = true  


-- disable potentialy harmful lua functions when running superuser  
-- commented out the instructions here as BackTrack is meant to be run  
-- as root. -- dookie  
if running_superuser then  
-- local disabled_lib = {}  
-- setmetatable(disabled_lib,{ __index = function() error("this package has been disabled") end } );  

-- dofile = function() error("dofile has been disabled") end  
-- loadfile = function() error("loadfile has been disabled") end  
-- loadlib = function() error("loadlib has been disabled") end  
-- require = function() error("require has been disabled") end  
-- os = disabled_lib  
-- io = disabled_lib  
-- file = disabled_lib  
end  

-- to avoid output to stdout which can cause problems lua's print ()  
-- has been suppresed so that it yields an error.  
-- have print() call info() instead.  
if gui_enabled() then  
print = info  
end  

-- -- Wiretap encapsulations XXX  
wtap_encaps = {  
["UNKNOWN"] = 0,  
["ETHERNET"] = 1,  
["TOKEN_RING"] = 2,  
["SLIP"] = 3,  
["PPP"] = 4,  
["FDDI"] = 5,  
["FDDI_BITSWAPPED"] = 6,  
["RAW_IP"] = 7,  
["ARCNET"] = 8,  
["ARCNET_LINUX"] = 9,  
["ATM_RFC1483"] = 10,  
["LINUX_ATM_CLIP"] = 11,  
["LAPB"] = 12,  
["ATM_PDUS"] = 13,  
["ATM_PDUS_UNTRUNCATED"] = 14,  
["NULL"] = 15,  
["ASCEND"] = 16,  
["ISDN"] = 17,  
["IP_OVER_FC"] = 18,  
["PPP_WITH_PHDR"] = 19,  
["IEEE_802_11"] = 20,  
["IEEE_802_11_PRISM"] = 21,  
["IEEE_802_11_WITH_RADIO"] = 22,  
["IEEE_802_11_RADIOTAP"] = 23,  
["IEEE_802_11_AVS"] = 24,  
["SLL"] = 25,  
["FRELAY"] = 26,  
["FRELAY_WITH_PHDR"] = 27,  
["CHDLC"] = 28,  
["CISCO_IOS"] = 29,  
["LOCALTALK"] = 30,  
["OLD_PFLOG"] = 31,  
["HHDLC"] = 32,  
["DOCSIS"] = 33,  
["COSINE"] = 34,  
["WFLEET_HDLC"] = 35,  
["SDLC"] = 36,  
["TZSP"] = 37,  
["ENC"] = 38,  
["PFLOG"] = 39,  
["CHDLC_WITH_PHDR"] = 40,  
["BLUETOOTH_H4"] = 41,  
["MTP2"] = 42,  
["MTP3"] = 43,  
["IRDA"] = 44,  
["USER0"] = 45,  
["USER1"] = 46,  
["USER2"] = 47,  
["USER3"] = 48,  
["USER4"] = 49,  
["USER5"] = 50,  
["USER6"] = 51,  
["USER7"] = 52,  
["USER8"] = 53,  
["USER9"] = 54,  
["USER10"] = 55,  
["USER11"] = 56,  
["USER12"] = 57,  
["USER13"] = 58,  
["USER14"] = 59,  
["USER15"] = 60,  
["SYMANTEC"] = 61,  
["APPLE_IP_OVER_IEEE1394"] = 62,  
["BACNET_MS_TP"] = 63,  
["NETTL_RAW_ICMP"] = 64,  
["NETTL_RAW_ICMPV6"] = 65,  
["GPRS_LLC"] = 66,  
["JUNIPER_ATM1"] = 67,  
["JUNIPER_ATM2"] = 68,  
["REDBACK"] = 69,  
["NETTL_RAW_IP"] = 70,  
["NETTL_ETHERNET"] = 71,  
["NETTL_TOKEN_RING"] = 72,  
["NETTL_FDDI"] = 73,  
["NETTL_UNKNOWN"] = 74,  
["MTP2_WITH_PHDR"] = 75,  
["JUNIPER_PPPOE"] = 76,  
["GCOM_TIE1"] = 77,  
["GCOM_SERIAL"] = 78,  
["NETTL_X25"] = 79,  
["K12"] = 80,  
["JUNIPER_MLPPP"] = 81,  
["JUNIPER_MLFR"] = 82,  
["JUNIPER_ETHER"] = 83,  
["JUNIPER_PPP"] = 84,  
["JUNIPER_FRELAY"] = 85,  
["JUNIPER_CHDLC"] = 86,  
["JUNIPER_GGSN"] = 87,  
["LINUX_LAPD"] = 88,  
["CATAPULT_DCT2000"] = 89,  
["BER"] = 90,  
["JUNIPER_VP"] = 91,  
["USB"] = 92,  
["IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS"] = 93,  
["NETTL_RAW_TELNET"] = 94,  
["USB_LINUX"] = 95,  
["MPEG"] = 96,  
["PPI"] = 97,  
["ERF"] = 98,  
["BLUETOOTH_H4_WITH_PHDR"] = 99,  
["SITA"] = 100,  
["SCCP"] = 101,  
["BLUETOOTH_HCI"] = 102,  
["IPMB"] = 103,  
["IEEE802_15_4"] = 104,  
["X2E_XORAYA"] = 105,  
["FLEXRAY"] = 106,  
["LIN"] = 107,  
["MOST"] = 108,  
["CAN20B"] = 109,  
["LAYER1_EVENT"] = 110,  
["X2E_SERIAL"] = 111,  
["I2C"] = 112,  
["IEEE802_15_4_NONASK_PHY"] = 113,  
["TNEF"] = 114,  
["USB_LINUX_MMAPPED"] = 115,  
["GSM_UM"] = 116,  
["DPNSS"] = 117,  
["PACKETLOGGER"] = 118,  
["NSTRACE_1_0"] = 119,  
["NSTRACE_2_0"] = 120,  
["FIBRE_CHANNEL_FC2"] = 121,  
["FIBRE_CHANNEL_FC2_WITH_FRAME_DELIMS"] = 122,  
["JPEG_JFIF"] = 123,  
["IPNET"] = 124,  
["SOCKETCAN"] = 125, ["IEEE_802_11_NETMON"] = 126,  
["IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS"] = 127,  
["RAW_IPFIX"] = 128,  
["RAW_IP4"] = 129,  
["RAW_IP6"] = 130,  
["LAPD"] = 131,  
["DVBCI"] = 132,  
["MUX27010"] = 133,  
["MIME"] = 134,  
["NETANALYZER"] = 135,  
["NETANALYZER_TRANSPARENT"] = 136,  
["IP_OVER_IB"] = 137,  
["MPEG_2_TS"] = 138,  
["PPP_ETHER"] = 139,  
["NFC_LLCP"] = 140,  
["NFLOG"] = 141,  
["V5_EF"] = 142,  
["BACNET_MS_TP_WITH_PHDR"] = 143,  
["IXVERIWAVE"] = 144,  
["IEEE_802_11_AIROPEEK"] = 145,  
["SDH"] = 146,  
["DBUS"] = 147,  
["AX25_KISS"] = 148,  
["AX25"] = 149,  
["SCTP"] = 150,  
["INFINIBAND"] = 151,  
["JUNIPER_SVCS"] = 152,  
["USBPCAP"] = 153  
}  
wtap = wtap_encaps -- for bw compatibility  


-- -- Wiretap file types  
wtap_filetypes = {  
["UNKNOWN"] = 0,  
["PCAP"] = 1,  
["PCAPNG"] = 2,  
["PCAP_NSEC"] = 3,  
["PCAP_AIX"] = 4,  
["PCAP_SS991029"] = 5,  
["PCAP_NOKIA"] = 6,  
["PCAP_SS990417"] = 7,  
["PCAP_SS990915"] = 8,  
["5VIEWS"] = 9,  
["IPTRACE_1_0"] = 10,  
["IPTRACE_2_0"] = 11,  
["BER"] = 12,  
["HCIDUMP"] = 13,  
["CATAPULT_DCT2000"] = 14,  
["NETXRAY_OLD"] = 15,  
["NETXRAY_1_0"] = 16,  
["COSINE"] = 17,  
["CSIDS"] = 18,  
["DBS_ETHERWATCH"] = 19,  
["ERF"] = 20,  
["EYESDN"] = 21,  
["NETTL"] = 22,  
["ISERIES"] = 23,  
["ISERIES_UNICODE"] = 24,  
["I4BTRACE"] = 25,  
["ASCEND"] = 26,  
["NGSNIFFER_UNCOMPRESSED"] = 29,  
["NGSNIFFER_COMPRESSED"] = 30,  
["NETXRAY_1_1"] = 31,  
["NETWORK_INSTRUMENTS"] = 33,  
["LANALYZER"] = 34,  
["PPPDUMP"] = 35,  
["RADCOM"] = 36,  
["SNOOP"] = 37,  
["SHOMITI"] = 38,  
["VMS"] = 39,  
["K12"] = 40,  
["TOSHIBA"] = 41,  
["VISUAL_NETWORKS"] = 42,  
["PEEKCLASSIC_V56"] = 43,  
["PEEKCLASSIC_V7"] = 44,  
["PEEKTAGGED"] = 45,  
["MPEG"] = 46,  
["K12TEXT"] = 47,  
["NETSCREEN"] = 48,  
["COMMVIEW"] = 49,  
["BTSNOOP"] = 50,  
["TNEF"] = 51,  
["DCT3TRACE"] = 52,  
["PACKETLOGGER"] = 53,  
["DAINTREE_SNA"] = 54,  
["NETSCALER_1_0"] = 55,  
["NETSCALER_2_0"] = 56,  
["JPEG_JFIF"] = 57,  
["IPFIX"] = 58,  
["MIME"] = 59,  
["AETHRA"] = 60,  
["MPEG_2_TS"] = 61,  
["VWR_80211"] = 62,  
["VWR_ETH"] = 63,  
["CAMINS"] = 64,  
["TSPREC_SEC"] = 0,  
["TSPREC_DSEC"] = 1,  
["TSPREC_CSEC"] = 2,  
["TSPREC_MSEC"] = 3,  
["TSPREC_USEC"] = 6,  
["TSPREC_NSEC"] = 9  
}  


-- -- Field Types  
ftypes = {  
["NONE"] = 0,  
["PROTOCOL"] = 1,  
["BOOLEAN"] = 2,  
["UINT8"] = 3,  
["UINT16"] = 4,  
["UINT24"] = 5,  
["UINT32"] = 6,  
["UINT64"] = 7,  
["INT8"] = 8,  
["INT16"] = 9,  
["INT24"] = 10,  
["INT32"] = 11,  
["INT64"] = 12,  
["FLOAT"] = 13,  
["DOUBLE"] = 14,  
["ABSOLUTE_TIME"] = 15,  
["RELATIVE_TIME"] = 16,  
["STRING"] = 17,  
["STRINGZ"] = 18,  
["UINT_STRING"] = 19,  
["ETHER"] = 20,  
["BYTES"] = 21,  
["UINT_BYTES"] = 22,  
["IPv4"] = 23,  
["IPv6"] = 24,  
["IPXNET"] = 25,  
["FRAMENUM"] = 26,  
["PCRE"] = 27,  
["GUID"] = 28,  
["OID"] = 29,  
["EUI64"] = 30,  
["AX25"] = 31  
}  


-- -- Display Bases  
base = {  
["NONE"] = 0,  
["DEC"] = 1,  
["HEX"] = 2,  
["OCT"] = 3,  
["DEC_HEX"] = 4,  
["HEX_DEC"] = 5,  
}  


-- -- Encodings  
ENC_BIG_ENDIAN = 0  
ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 2147483648  
ENC_TIME_TIMESPEC = 0  
ENC_TIME_NTP = 2  
ENC_CHARENCODING_MASK = 2147483646  
ENC_ASCII = 0  
ENC_UTF_8 = 2  
ENC_UTF_16 = 4  
ENC_UCS_2 = 6  
ENC_EBCDIC = 8  
ENC_NA = 0  


-- -- Expert flags and facilities  
PI_SEVERITY_MASK = 15728640  
PI_COMMENT = 1048576  
PI_CHAT = 2097152  
PI_NOTE = 4194304  
PI_WARN = 6291456  
PI_ERROR = 8388608  
PI_GROUP_MASK = 4278190080  
PI_CHECKSUM = 16777216  
PI_SEQUENCE = 33554432  
PI_RESPONSE_CODE = 50331648  
PI_REQUEST_CODE = 67108864  
PI_UNDECODED = 83886080  
PI_REASSEMBLE = 100663296  
PI_MALFORMED = 117440512  
PI_DEBUG = 134217728  
PI_PROTOCOL = 150994944  
PI_SECURITY = 167772160  
PI_COMMENTS_GROUP = 184549376  
  
  
  
  
-- -- menu groups for register_menu  
MENU_ANALYZE_UNSORTED = 0  
MENU_ANALYZE_CONVERSATION = 1  
MENU_STAT_UNSORTED = 2  
MENU_STAT_GENERIC = 3  
MENU_STAT_CONVERSATION = 4  
MENU_STAT_ENDPOINT = 5  
MENU_STAT_RESPONSE = 6  
MENU_STAT_TELEPHONY = 7  
MENU_TOOLS_UNSORTED = 8  
  
  
-- other useful constants  
GUI_ENABLED = gui_enabled()  
DATA_DIR = datafile_path()  
USER_DIR = persconffile_path()  
  
dofile(DATA_DIR.."console.lua")  
--dofile(DATA_DIR.."dtd_gen.lua")

Save and quit.

Have fun, Arief :)
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