From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Subject: Re: opening a port without root permission Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:34:49 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200406292134.49415.eric@cisu.net> References: <16a3a73169e674.169e67416a3a73@homemail.nyu.edu> Reply-To: eric@cisu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16a3a73169e674.169e67416a3a73@homemail.nyu.edu> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Anshuman Singh Rawat Cc: "linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org" On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:20 pm, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote: > Hi, > Is there any way one can open a port, in my specific case - the ARP port, > so that I could do an Arping without a root access ? > > Or is there any way the root could give permission to a user to open a port > ? > > Or does anyone know a way by which I can extract the MAC address of a > remote machine in a different subnet, where I do not have to be a > super-user? > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks. sudo This program will allow root to give normal users "root" access to specified programs with or without a password. To see if its already installed do "man sudo" or "visudo" > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs