"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
> If any user on a Unix system could send out any sort of ICMP requests,
> he could throttle/kill/reject/etc a connection that another user (on the
> same machine) was making. Hence root permission is needed in general to
> protect user's.
>
> Of course on a Windows box everybody is root, so one can any nasty thing
> they please because it is basically a single-user model.
This strikes me as insecure anyway. What if I bring in my Linux laptop and
plug it into your network when your not looking? I've root on my own system, so
now I can send out ICMP to your machines...
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Bob Bell Compaq Computer Corporation
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