>git clone git://github.com/mickflemm/firesheep.git
>cd firesheep
>git submodule update --init
>./autogen.sh --with-xulrunner-sdk=/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.13
Now you have to pretend you know what you're doing... add dependencies it complains about, and hack a makefile
For dependencies, look for what it complains about using apt-cache:
>apt-cache search '[missing dependency name]'
>sudo apt-get install '[package from list]'
>make
The installer gets built in:
./firesheep/build/
Just fire up firefox and browse to it. Double click.
Alternately, type:
> firefox build/firesheep.xpi
At this point, if you go into preferences, there's nothing in the interface list. There's one last step:
> cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/extensions/firesheep@codebutler.com/platform/*gcc3
> sudo ./firesheep-backend --fix-permissions
On my eeepc, the interface needs to be in monitor mode to capture cookies:
>ifconfig wlan0 down
>iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
>ifconfig wlan0 up
This allows firesheep to capture cookies, but you can't connect to the internet. You need a second connection, or else you can just switch back once a cookie gets captured:
>ifconfig wlan0 down
>iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
>ifconfig wlan0 up
It's not quite as automatic as on the other platforms, but it works! I tried it by logging into my facebook on my Mac in Safari. Up popped my facebook entry, but the icon was broken because my interface was in monitor mode. I switched to managed mode and then clicked on the entry in the firesheep tab and viola! I'm logged in without a password!
I next added a second wireless interface and put my wireless in monitor mode. Then everything works pionty clicky, including icons. I click on my smiling mug and up pops my facebook page, logged in as me.
But it needs two wireless cards to work seamlessly... :-( Not ideal. It works though. Coool stuff.
PS. Here's a link to the plugin, in case you're lazy. (It works for me on Ubuntu 10.04 on an EEEPC 701)
http://www.mediafire.com/?6n0v23oc8cccbkr
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