Idan Sofer wrote:
> --- guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> as a regular user? (Without using suid root)
>>
>> modify the kernel to allow that. as far as i know,
>> the kernel won't allow
>> a regular user to set an ethernet card to promicious
>
> Just an idea i have for quite a time..
>
> It is probably possible to write a "root deamon", that
> will preform
> predefined, root only actions, with or without a
> password.
there is a sudo package, which allows you to perform predefined, root only
actions.
Writing a daemon is dangerous, since you will have to give some way to
process-daemon
communications, and in that way, (since that channel should be opened
for any process which
has to do those predefined actions) it is quite possible to forge the
daemon to give you a root privs...
>
> Idan
>
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