Re: opening a port without root permission

Eric
2004-06-30T02:34:49Z

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"

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