Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: ipchains: /proc/net/ip_fw* permission change | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:37:16 +0000 (GMT) |
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> 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.
Yes. I had figured that wasnt a big problem - because you can chmod files in proc. For some reason /proc/net doesnt like chmod 8(
Alan
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