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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: iptables permission problem in perl scripts
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:44:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43002BDB.4050100@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdb0cf39050814022961f4b816@mail.gmail.com>

psihozefir wrote:
> maybe run perl executable suid root

NO!  Do not do this, this will introduce SO MANY security problems on a modern box.  This is REALLY a BAD idea.  Find some other way to fix your problem.



Grant. . . .


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-15  5:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-14  9:29 iptables permission problem in perl scripts psihozefir
2005-08-15  5:44 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-14  7:34 afshin lamei
2005-08-14  8:27 ` Gavin Henry
2005-08-15  5:47 ` Grant Taylor
2005-08-15  9:17   ` /dev/rob0
2005-08-15  6:12 ` Jan Engelhardt

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