Comments on: Wireshark ChmodBPF errors on Snow Leopard

By: Sinnombre

Sinnombre — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:51:00 +0000

un-quarantine the file if it as an @ next to it after permissions with ls -al
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF

By: Joshua Davies

Joshua Davies — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:06:33 +0000

Thanks – you’d think they would have mentioned that in the README…

By: simonu

simonu — Sun, 01 May 2011 08:52:38 +0000

helpfull!!!

By: shamurti

shamurti — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:27:20 +0000

@Rob

The command “sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF” alone did not work for me.

I had to also use (from Rob’s suggestions above):
sudo chmod 644 /dev/bpf*

Thanks to all …..

By: Tomas

Tomas — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:20:50 +0000

Solved my problem. Thank you very much!

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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:05:09 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:31:05 +0000

Sorry for being repetitive, but thank you! It worked

By: Nick Kleinschmidt

Nick Kleinschmidt — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:40:52 +0000

@Wireshark + OSX 10.6.6 = Success Sudo is always a magic solution, but it's not usually a good idea to run lots of programs as root, as there's potential for lots of damage or malicious activity.

By: Wireshark + OSX 10.6.6 = Success

Wireshark + OSX 10.6.6 = Success — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:54:30 +0000

So a lot of people have been having trouble running Wireshark on OSX 10.6.6, having no interfaces, and when applying the CHmodBPF, they get login errors. Not to fear! Here is how I fixed it. Install Wireshark via Macports, and when starting up Wireshark, run it with “sudo”, so your start command is “sudo wireshark”. Enter password, and all fixed! You don’t even need to keep the CHmodBPF folder in the startupitems folder for it to work.

Happy sniffing!

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