[PATCH] ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges
Cathey, Jim
jcathey at ciena.com
Thu Jan 9 21:23:52 UTC 2014
Doesn't really do you much good since BB is still doing
its own name checks.
No, it's not perfect. Making this kind of relay program a real part
of BB, as a user-selectable option probably, would be best.
-- Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Korsgaard
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:46 PM
To: Cathey, Jim
Cc: Laurent Bercot; Denys Vlasenko; busybox
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges
>>>>> "Cathey," == Cathey, Jim <jcathey at ciena.com> writes:
> This is on a read-only root filesystem that is built the way we want it.
> (Squashfs, I believe.) There aren't any, and can't be, any links to names
> we don't wish to give suid permission to.
And no writable storage anywhere (E.G. a tmpfs for /tmp or similar)
where you can add a handy symlink to the wrapper?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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