Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:40:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Edward S. Marshall wrote: > 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...)
I was thinking of just 1023 files in each. You know, the "privileged" ports.
Otherwise it would be hard to set permissions on a privileged port before a program actually opened it 8)
> 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.
Well see, we have people who dont want procfs *or* devfs. Their solution would probably be to pollute /dev with a whole new group of maj/min devices just to hold socket permissions.
-Dan
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