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Re: drop privileges to nobody is pinging as root

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Old 02-22-2008, 01:09 PM
Theo de Raadt
 
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Default Re: drop privileges to nobody is pinging as root

> To further improve security I think this patch may help.

This does not help. In fact, it potentially gives the person running
ping access to another uid.

You need to think about why we do it as we do, throughout the tree.

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