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Re: [cobalt-users] Ping and traceroute on RaQ3
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Ping and traceroute on RaQ3
- From: "Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Jul 17 05:04:13 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On a regular Linux system, ping is accessible to all, but not on the
> Cobalt RaQ's, why? -- Jonathan
I suppose that all depends upon what you mean by "regular Linux system" :)
I believe that all raw tcp / ICMP access is restricted only to root access
in the linux kernal. However, I am not completely sure about this...
In any event, you could suid ping to be run by any user, right? But you
don't really want to do that, do you? Anyone who compromises your server
could use ping in a DoS attack, without even gaining root access.
Kevin