Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: ipchains: /proc/net/ip_fw* permission change | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:42:09 +1130 |
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In message <m101yue-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu> you write: > > such a discussion would have happened, or is there an obvious reason why > > people shouldn't be allowed to see how many packets have been processed > > by ipchains? > > For accounting only minor ones, for firewalling serious ones.
I got overridden on this one. As pointed out, it was that way all through 2.0; changing the permissions to root-readable only is of such marginal benifit that I would not have done it in a freeze. Given that monitoring programs now need to run as root, the net result is probably no change in security.
Rusty. -- .sig lost in the mail.
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