From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Listen root only
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:02:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050717140209.GC18923@cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507160845220.12607@wapiti.we7u.net>
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:50:41AM -0700, Curt Mills wrote:
> As to how to solve the general problem discussed, I haven't a clue.
> I can't see a way around it. In Xastir we have the users install
> SUID-root so that we can open AX.25 ports, but we drop priviledges
> in the code except for those short instances where we need the root
> priviledges. It's still a security concern, but less so that way.
I expect that the kernel could be changed to allow any user to open the
relevant type of socket. I don't know whether the kernel maintainers
would accept this solution though.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-17 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-16 1:02 Listen root only Chuck Hast
2005-07-16 2:16 ` Hamish Moffatt
2005-07-16 2:40 ` Chuck Hast
2005-07-16 4:32 ` Chuck Hemker
2005-07-16 15:50 ` Curt Mills
2005-07-16 22:36 ` Jim Bayer
2005-07-17 14:02 ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
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