Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-14 Thread Terry Lambert
"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:53:03AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > You would either lose or overexpose root-restricted functionality, > > such as flood-ping. > > Eh? Why? pingd can know your credentials. Through the credential passing? I thought that wasn't reliab

Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-05 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:55:55AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Through the credential passing? I thought that wasn't reliable > for this type of thing. Specifically, the jail would be in an > untrusted protection domain; if you just accepted the credential > blindly, then anyone could be root i

Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-04 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:53:03AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > You would either lose or overexpose root-restricted functionality, > such as flood-ping. Eh? Why? pingd can know your credentials. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-04 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:35 AM -0400 2003/08/04, Robert Watson wrote: > > The best short-term suggestion would be to write a > > privilege-separated ping tool -- a pingd running outside the jail, > > providing UNIX domain sockets in each jail that needs the ability to ping; > > ping then

Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:35 AM -0400 2003/08/04, Robert Watson wrote: The best short-term suggestion would be to write a privilege-separated ping tool -- a pingd running outside the jail, providing UNIX domain sockets in each jail that needs the ability to ping; ping then becomes a client that RPC's to pingd

Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > Is there a patch that will allow ping from inside a jail on 5.x? Google > didn't show anything? The problem is that, to generate pings, you have to have access to a raw socket. And unfortuantely, raw sockets imply access to a lot more than just the abili

Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-04 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Is there a patch that will allow ping from inside a jail on 5.x? Google didn't show anything? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t: 07919 373537 | General FreeBSD Forums: 10% don