Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:20:52 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
| |
Edward S. Marshall writes: > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Dan Hollis wrote: > > I cant be the only one who would like to do something like: > > > > # chown named /proc/sys/net/permissions/udp/53 > > # chown named /proc/sys/net/permissions/tdp/53 > > > > And then run named non-root. > > Ye ghods, yes. What do you get when you readdir() > /proc/sys/net/permissions/udp? All currently bound sockets? 65k files? > (The former would obviously be preferred...)
Or just deny readdir() completely. It's not essential. % ls -lF blah/udp/16
will still work. Just showing bound sockets would be strange, because the point of this is to control access to allow binding in the first place.
> I have to admit, I think this (conceptually) fits better in the realm of > devfs. /proc just seems wrong for anything like this, but maybe it's my > distaste of /proc being polluted for configuration controls showing.
Someone wrote a sockfs a long time ago. I don't recall what happened to it.
Regards,
Richard....
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |