From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 15:03:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA22299 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA22281 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA08601; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:02:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:02:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608162202.QAA08601@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), mnewell@kaizen.net (Mike Newell) Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? In-Reply-To: <199608162055.WAA07613@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199608162055.WAA07613@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J. Wunsch writes: > As Mike Newell wrote: > > > > I believe I hacked a copy of route to fix this problem and installed it as > > > /etc/ppp/route... > > > > That's what I had planned to do, but I wasn't sure if something else would > > break if I just took out the UID checks. If it works for you, I'll start > > hack'n tonight. :-) > > NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! > > Don't do it. You're going to let everybody who has execute permission > to this script manipulate your routing tables. Read my other > followup... The hacked program doesn't have to be setuid, so it's no security violation. And, you can mess with the execute bits on it if you're really paranoid. Nate