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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Andreas Ferber wrote: > And some wishlist items: > > - It would be nice if there were a way to distinguish between TCP and > UDP ports. > - IPv6 support would be nice. This raises the question what will > happen if a process has the privileges to bind a particular port > with IPv6 but not with IPv4 (IPv6 listeners take IPv4 connections > also). Is there any value in distinguishing IPv6 and IPv4 at all, > in particular if IPv6 gets into more widespread use in the future? > - Restricting access to certain high ports would be valuable. For > example many SQL server use those ports, and it would be nice if one > could prevent ordinary user processes from taking over their ports > in case the SQL daemon gets restarted or the like. > > At least accessfs is a nice and expandable idea. Keep up the work :-) > What would be nice would be to have a way to restrict access to ports based on IP ex: user1 gets 10.0.0.1 and user2 gets 10.0.0.2. Gerhard -- Gerhard Mack gmack@innerfire.net <>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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