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Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges?
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas () netcore fi>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:05:27 +0200 (EET)
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:31:08PM -0600, Earl Hood wrote:I think so. I just a posted a patch for dropping priviledges in a similiar style that the RedHat port of tcpdump does.This must be the RedHat that never sends their patches back upstream. :-/
Well, speaking as the one who made the patch in the first place, maybe 2-3 years ago, I did send it to this list a LONG time ago, but didn't bother re-sending too many times because there appeared to be very little interest in the patches. As for why I went for "pcap" instead of nobody in the first place.. Red Hat bundles tcpdump with arpwatch, which I also coded to drop root privileges. Picking a specific user name for these two purposes seemed only logical. (Arpwatch has to maintain a couple of files owned by 'pcap' as well.) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:tcpdump-workers-request () tcpdump org?body=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges?, (continued)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 20)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Jefferson Ogata (Jan 20)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 21)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Jefferson Ogata (Jan 21)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 23)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 20)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Ryan Mooney (Jan 21)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Jefferson Ogata (Jan 21)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 20)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 20)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Pekka Savola (Jan 20)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Andrew Pimlott (Jan 21)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Pekka Savola (Jan 21)
- Re: why doesn't tcpdump drop privileges? Hannes Gredler (Jan 24)