Quoting Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> OK, here's a wierd question from one of my clients...
> He's working in a lab environment where he's testing traffic with a
> few
> other people in an isolated environment.
> He needs for general users to run a program that makes socket calls
> usually reserved for root.
Specifically, what socket calls? It makes a difference..
> So I had him chmod 4755 the binary. This works as a temperary
> solution,
> but as it is this binary they are working on, it would require all the
> users to have sudo and that would defeat the purpose.
Aye..
> So... He suggested that we chmod the *interface* device. AKA, eth1.
> Might work. But, in RH7.3, I can't locate the device name in /dev for
> eth1!
There isnt. Network interfaces arent devices..
> Any ideas here?
Again, it matters what the calls are. If they are trying to put the device
into premiscious (sic?) mode, or simply trying to do something like bypass the
TCP layer, and talk directly IP, etc..
--
Thomas Charron
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