On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:02:22PM -0700, K Anderson wrote: > Well, all I have to do then as a user who can't run ping is get it from > someplace else and just do ./ping in my home directory. Correct? Or even > use a perl script to do it. If that's possible.
No. Normal users can't create the raw sockets that ping needs to work. A ping executable, no matter where it came from, is not going to work unless it's suid root (or run by root). Normal users obviously cannot mark an executable suid root. > The above example then becomes pointless and the poster did ask to > disable it or get rid of it all together. Just shutting down the > /sbin/ping isn't enough. That's all I am saying. :) You're wrong. You would be right if we were talking about lots of other programs, but not ping. -- Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
