From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: allow non-netadmin to query settings
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:44:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100823.204431.267970668.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100823132418.7721b072@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:24:18 -0700
> The SNMP daemon uses ethtool to determine the speed of
> network interfaces. This fails on Debian (and probably elsewhere)
> because for security SNMP daemon runs as non-root user (snmp).
>
> Note: A similar patch was rejected previously because of a concern about
> the possibility that on some hardware querying the ethtool settings
> requires access to the PHY and could slow the machine down. But the
> security risk of requiring SNMP daemon (and related services)
> to run as root far out weighs the risk of denial-of-service.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 20:24 [PATCH] ethtool: allow non-netadmin to query settings Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-23 21:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-08-23 21:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-24 3:44 ` David Miller [this message]
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