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From: matjaž <matjazbercic@lavabit.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Steffen Heil <lists@steffen-heil.de>,
	Netfilter user mailing list <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>,
	rob0@gmx.co.uk, Eric Lebond <eric@regit.org>
Subject: Re: AW: Possible bug in iptables : -m --uid-owner not working with ping
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:56:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508596F1.6090802@lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1210221816210.11589@nerf07.vanv.qr>

Thank you all for your explanations.
And yes, my ping is suid and this solves my problems.
Best regards,
Matjaž

On 10/22/2012 06:19 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2012-10-22 16:43, Steffen Heil (Mailinglisten) wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On my system /bin/ping has suid-bit set.
>> So it it always executed as root, not as the user invoking it.
>>
>> As far as I know, ping requires root privileges...
>
> Linux supports
>
> 	socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_ICMP)
>
> since v3.0, so ping does not _strictly_ need root anymore - and
> meanwhile fixes your owner "mismatch".
>


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-22 14:38 Possible bug in iptables : -m --uid-owner not working with ping matjaž
2012-10-22 14:43 ` AW: " Steffen Heil (Mailinglisten)
2012-10-22 16:19   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-10-22 18:56     ` matjaž [this message]
2012-10-22 14:44 ` Eric Leblond
2012-10-22 14:44 ` /dev/rob0

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