On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:31:08PM -0600, Earl Hood wrote: > > I think so. I just a posted a patch for dropping priviledges in a > > similiar style that the RedHat port of tcpdump does. > > This must be the RedHat that never sends their patches back > upstream. :-/
Well, speaking as the one who made the patch in the first place, maybe 2-3 years ago, I did send it to this list a LONG time ago, but didn't bother re-sending too many times because there appeared to be very little interest in the patches. As for why I went for "pcap" instead of nobody in the first place.. Red Hat bundles tcpdump with arpwatch, which I also coded to drop root privileges. Picking a specific user name for these two purposes seemed only logical. (Arpwatch has to maintain a couple of files owned by 'pcap' as well.) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]