Re: ipchains: /proc/net/ip_fw* permission change
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:37:16 +0000 (GMT)
> I got overridden on this one. As pointed out, it was that way all
> through 2.0; changing the permissions to root-readable only is of such
> marginal benifit that I would not have done it in a freeze. Given
> that monitoring programs now need to run as root, the net result is
> probably no change in security.
Yes. I had figured that wasnt a big problem - because you can chmod files
in proc. For some reason /proc/net doesnt like chmod 8(
Alan
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