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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUEUE target and capabilities
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:23:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471C8838.7050402@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b2db90b0710210017i196253f5sedfd5348ea42a03a@mail.gmail.com>

Nir Tzachar wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am writing an application which uses the QUEUE target, and
> encountered a simple problem. My goal is to run the application
> without root privileges. That is, start the program under root, call
> ipq_create_handle, and then drop privileges.
> 
> However, as far as I can tell, I cannot communicate with the netlink
> socket of netfilter unless the process has the CAP_NET_ADMIN
> capability (I may be wrong, but I am basing this on:
> /usr/src/linux/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:204:   if
> (security_netlink_recv(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
> ).
> 
> So, is there a way to use the QUEUE target _after_ dropping privilages?


Apparently none besides simply keeping CAP_NET_ADMIN.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21  7:17 QUEUE target and capabilities Nir Tzachar
2007-10-22 11:23 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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