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From: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Subject: [TUHS] rm command
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:51:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180428185115.GA97169@accordion.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180428163351.GG20510@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se>

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 04:33:51PM +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> 
> If you want weird, then tell me why on Earth /bin/ping _really_ needs
> to be setuid root on Linux (has no one heard of capabilities?),

It doesn't even need that anymore, like darwin it supports SOCK_DGRAM
ICMP sockets, such that ping can be written as an unpriviledged program.

DF


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-28 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-25 22:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-27 16:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 16:58   ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-27 18:14   ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-27 18:17     ` Pete Wright
2018-04-28 16:33       ` Michael Kjörling
2018-04-28 18:01         ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-28 18:51         ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
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2018-04-27 16:42 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-26  2:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-26  9:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 20:22 Eric Blood
2018-04-25 21:23 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 21:33 ` John P. Linderman
2018-04-25 21:53   ` William Corcoran
2018-04-25 21:58     ` Derek Fawcus
2018-04-25 22:09     ` Ralph Corderoy

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