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Date:      Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:07:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        Spidey <beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca>, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Examining FBSD set[ug]ids and their use
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911021104470.2731-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199911020449.XAA03496@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

>> > ># Allow users to bind on a socket (which? where?)
>> > >	ping mode=4555
>> > Needed to allow ordinary mortals to sent raw IP (ICMP) packets.
>> 
>> I don't think this should be enable by default... on a shell box, this 
>> could cause some pretty dense headaches...
>
>You don't think mortal users should be able to ping? IMHO, ping is a
>_very_ basic utility that generally should be turned on. I don't want
>to have to 'su' to root everytime I want to ping a host to see if it
>is awake. Same goes for traceroute(8).

Doesn't ICMP_BAND_LIMIT reduce said headaches for packets originating from
the server? If it did, this would reduce said headaches.

This is a question more than a comment.

Thank You, 	| http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/
Jason Wells



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