On May 20, 2008, at 10:13 AM, David Brown wrote:
I agree with the security code being a problem, but do you expect to
be
able to do the scanning without being root?
See, there's that now-seemingly-arbitrary "you must be root to do
special things" idea that's a holdover from when there were, what, 5
unix hosts on the internet ([D]ARPANET)?
I'm still not sure the "you must be root" metric is appropriate
anymore. MACs and other capabilities/roles methods are much better.
And their grass is greener.
Gregory
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