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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accessing packet marking functions
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:21:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277760075.1433.7.camel@andybev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C205543.9080902@trash.net>

> > The problem is that Squid normally runs as a non-privileged user (I had
> > to remove the root checks from the code to get it to run as root). Is
> > there any way to mark packets when not root? Or is the only way to make
> > this work to run a small part of Squid as root?
> 
> 
> enter_suid()/leave_suid().

Thanks, although in the end I have decided to try and use the
CAP_NET_ADMIN capability flag instead, to keep the use of root to a
minimum.

Cheers,

Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-19 16:42 Accessing packet marking functions Andrew Beverley
2010-06-19 20:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-19 20:50   ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-20 11:16   ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-20 11:52     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-20 12:31       ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-22  6:16         ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-28 21:21           ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2010-06-28 21:45             ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-29 21:22   ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-29 21:35     ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-06-30  6:14       ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-30  6:15         ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-30  6:32           ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-30  6:47             ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-24 17:30               ` Andrew Beverley
2010-10-24 23:55                 ` Jan Engelhardt

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