From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accessing packet marking functions
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:21:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277760075.1433.7.camel@andybev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C205543.9080902@trash.net>
> > The problem is that Squid normally runs as a non-privileged user (I had
> > to remove the root checks from the code to get it to run as root). Is
> > there any way to mark packets when not root? Or is the only way to make
> > this work to run a small part of Squid as root?
>
>
> enter_suid()/leave_suid().
Thanks, although in the end I have decided to try and use the
CAP_NET_ADMIN capability flag instead, to keep the use of root to a
minimum.
Cheers,
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-19 16:42 Accessing packet marking functions Andrew Beverley
2010-06-19 20:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-19 20:50 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-20 11:16 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-20 11:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-20 12:31 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-22 6:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-28 21:21 ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2010-06-28 21:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-29 21:22 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-29 21:35 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-06-30 6:14 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-30 6:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-30 6:32 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-06-30 6:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-24 17:30 ` Andrew Beverley
2010-10-24 23:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
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