#74 wireshark group
Closed 3 years ago by tpopela. Opened 4 years ago by xeboc.

Can someone explain me how can I add my user to wireshark group?
usermod -a -G is not working, if I add manually the wireshark group to /etc/group, like this:

echo -E wireshark:x:967: >> /etc/group

then the usermod command works and it adds my user to the wireshark group, everything seems working fine until i try to install a new pkg or upgrade the system, the rpm-ostree commands return the error:

While applying overrides for pkg wireshark-cli: Could not find group 'wireshark' in group file

(rmp-ostree returns to work properly if a I remove the wireshark group from /etc/group)

I guess I'm missing something, it is the first time I'm using a distro with ostree


users and groups are handled slightly differently than on a traditional system. most of them are stored in /usr/lib/group instead.

here is what I did:

# rpm-ostree install wireshark-cli
# reboot
# cat /usr/lib/group | grep wireshark >> /etc/group
# vi /etc/group  # add your username to the end of the wireshark line
# logout/login

cc @jlebon since he probably has a better answer

Heh, was looking at this too.

Right, the issue is more subtle in this case. And investigating this actually uncovered some issues I hadn't really thought through before. Anyway, upstreamed here: https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/1843.

The tl;dr though is there's no good way to do this right now other than removing yourself from /etc/group and running it as root for now.

I will close this with a link to the troubleshooting section the Fedora Silverblue documentation - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/troubleshooting/#_unable_to_add_user_to_group

Metadata Update from @tpopela:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

3 years ago

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