On Sunday 21 September 2003 12:35 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 6:05 pm, Chris wrote: > > Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question > > though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have > > it running all the time? > > Fairly safe if you do it right. If you make it owned by root and setuid > root in a directory only root can write to, most of the problems go > away. If it's owned by a normal user but run by root then it can be > hacked by anything with the user's rights. If it's in a directory owned > by a user it's trivial to copy it, hack it and overwrite the original. > > Kernel 2.6 will allow it to have just LAN access rights, but for that > you'll have to wait until MDK 10.
So, if its owned by root, in group root and only root has permisson to read/write/exe and others can only read/exe then I assume its safe. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 12:48pm up 18:56, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.09
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