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Re: [cobalt-developers] PING CMD & SECURITY
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] PING CMD & SECURITY
- From: "Keith Szlamp" <keith@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Aug 30 19:18:02 2001
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
> Would a security whole exist if I enable ping cmd for users other than
> root! Why Cobalt is restricting it to root?!
'ping' is restricted to root to stop users exploiting the use of
the tool to launch a DoS attack on another service. Enable ping
for all users if you are certain that you don't have any script
kiddies on your server.
~Szlampy
http://www.playerswanted.co.uk/