On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Leszek A. Szczepanowski wrote:
> Is ANY posibility to use unproto list (raw socket), running
> FBB as ordinal user, not root? I was looking in kernel
> sources, and found in AF_AX25 there is one 'suser' function
> checking if user has priviledges to open such a socket.
> I think it is uneseseary there, security solutions in this
> case aren't needed! What a stupid reason. If I'll make
> patch, to open raw socket for AX25 by any user, it will
> be placed on this list.
Please don't distribute such bugs on this list. There are good reasons for
why the unix security model is as it is. Besides, doing what you want
(running FBB as non-root) would be fairly simple to do the right way. If
you want to be usefull, just help Jean-Paul in doing that.
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