Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Ownership of sockets 2.4.0-test2 | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:16:38 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The thing that puzzles me, is that you don't think it's a bug. > It is of course root that eg. owns an rlogin connection, but > shouldn't identd and netstat have the possibility of reporting > the users uid somehow? The identd in particular.
So its a problem to sort out with ident
> PS: Are you thinking about fchown as something an suid-root > application should do?
Another point is that an rlogin/rsh type tool should be dropping setuidness and keeping just the capability for low ports on a current kernel..
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