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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sysctl syscall
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:23:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611171023.45595.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611171007.57596.hasso@estpak.ee>

On Friday 17 November 2006 09:07, Hasso Tepper wrote:

> I have process which drops root privileges after startup and retains only 
> some privileges using CAP_NET_ADMIN and CAP_SYS_ADMIN capabilities.
> I can change values in /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/* (like turning forwarding 
> on/off) from this process using sysctl syscall, but I can't write 
> directly into /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/* from it.

That sounds more like a security bug than a feature to be preserved.

-Andi 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-17  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-15 22:03 Hasso Tepper
2006-11-15 22:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-17  7:15 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-17  8:07   ` Hasso Tepper
2006-11-17  9:23     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-11-17  9:38       ` Hasso Tepper

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