Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:05:42 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: hmin@public.cq.sc.cn Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: TO access the PROTO_RAW. Message-ID: <19971106100542.44789@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <3280477C.3DF1@public.cq.sc.cn>; from Huang Min on Nov 11, 1996 at 04:08:29PM %2B0800 References: <3280477C.3DF1@public.cq.sc.cn>
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On Nov 11, 1996 at 04:08:29PM +0800, Huang Min wrote: > Doing some basic programming, I know PROTO_RAW can only access by > the root user. Then I know the "ping" program is also using RAW, and > can be used by normal user, how does this happen? Can anyone explain > this to me? thanks -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin - 122880 Oct 14 1996 /sbin/ping* ^ ping is setuid root, and thus runs with root privs in order to open a raw socket. -- Jonathan
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