Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:02:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), mnewell@kaizen.net (Mike Newell) Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? Message-ID: <199608162202.QAA08601@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199608162055.WAA07613@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.960816123113.11933E-100000@dada.kaizen.net> <199608162055.WAA07613@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J. Wunsch writes: > As Mike Newell wrote: > > > > I believe I hacked a copy of route to fix this problem and installed it as > > > /etc/ppp/route... > > > > That's what I had planned to do, but I wasn't sure if something else would > > break if I just took out the UID checks. If it works for you, I'll start > > hack'n tonight. :-) > > NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! > > Don't do it. You're going to let everybody who has execute permission > to this script manipulate your routing tables. Read my other > followup... The hacked program doesn't have to be setuid, so it's no security violation. And, you can mess with the execute bits on it if you're really paranoid. Nate
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