On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Alexander Best wrote: > On Mon Mar 28 11, Iain Hibbert wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > > thus i believe making the -f switch only accessable to super-users (in > > > accordance with ping(8)/ping6(8)) would increase security. > > > > what stops the user from recompiling l2ping without this restriction? > > nothing. but what stops him from recompiling ping(8) or ping6(8) without the > restriction? still it's there.
AFAIK you need superuser privileges to even send ICMP_ECHO packets, thats why ping is traditionally a suid program and making a new binary won't help normal users.. I'm guessing that l2ping doesn't have the same restrictions? iain _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bluetooth To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
