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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 23:36:31 +0100
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] alfred: Drop capabilities when not needed
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On Saturday 28 February 2015 21:04:19 MK wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for the patch. Setup seems to be still working. How can I verify that
> privileges really dropped?
> 
> There are further questions:
> 
> Is _read_ access for the alfred user (resp. group) sufficient in
> /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/* ?
> Or is write access on the socket file in this directory mandatory for full
> functionality?

Read functionality should be enough. We are only reading the originator table 
and (global) translation table.

Cheers,
    Simon

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