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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:49:07 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net rtsock.c 
Message-ID:  <200109202149.f8KLn7R46222@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>  of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:05:36 %2B0300." <20010920200536.C61491@sunbay.com> 

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> Just a question before I start to break things further.  :-)
> 
> AFAIK this code is shared with OpenBSD, and in OpenBSD the
> routing sockets behave like after this commit, i.e. writes
> are allowed if current process has appropriate privileges.
> 
> I've checked OpenBSD's ppp/arp.c, and it uses write() not
> ID0write().  Is this broken in OpenBSD then?

That's entirely possible... I may not have tested it there for some 
time, but I'm pretty sure that I made the MTU update code use 
ID0write() rather than write() for exactly this reason and for 
OpenBSD's benefit.

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:53:51PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > ru          2001/09/20 01:25:25 PDT
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/net              rtsock.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Use the current process's credentials rather than socket's cached.
> > >   If the process drops its super-user privileges, we certainly don't
> > >   want to allow it to modify routing tables.
> > >   
> > >   Discussed with:	rwatson
> > >   
> > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >   1.58      +3 -3      src/sys/net/rtsock.c
> > 
> > I can't upgrade any of my current boxes at the moment, but I suspect 
> > this *may* break usr.sbin/ppp/arp.c (the write() on line 136 needs to 
> > change to ID0write()).
> > 
> > This can be tested by setting up a dialin to be assigned an IP address 
> > that's part of a LAN that's connected to the server, and adding 
> > ``enable proxy'' to the server config.
> > 
> > If you can't test it right now, could you change the write() to ID0
> > write() and I'll check things when I'm in a more stable position ?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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