On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Shao Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the other hand, the ioctl is no more ugly than fishing the MAC from ARP. > > The ablilty to be able to retrieve MAC from down interfaces is nice and > > essential for some applications. But I suspect it's more commen for poeple > > to look for up interfaces instead. > > > > Please make the IOCTL work for non-root users. Linux, for example allows > > retrieving MAC without being root. > > By tradition, you need to be root on UNIX in order to get permission to > see the MAC address.
Which is a false sense of security since the info is available from arp(1) anyway and with the introduction of IPv6 it is so often trivial to work it out from the IPv6 link local address anyway :-) -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
