Re: ipfw l b for users ?

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:46:17 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:

> > > fyi,
> > >
> > > non-root users can do "ipfw list block". shouldn't that return -EPERM ?
> > > i really don't like the users look at my firewall-tables o:-)
> >
> > Change the permissions on /proc/net/ipfw* then
> >
>
> you can't change them. (chmod is ignored).
>
>
Yes, they are hard coded in the source, but you can change that so what's
the problem ?
Bryn

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