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Re: [SCTP-Discussion] running as setuid


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  • From: Andreas Jungmaier <ajung AT exp-math.uni-essen.de>
  • To: Stefan Jansen <jansen AT szs.uni-karlsruhe.de>, discussion AT sctp.de
  • Subject: Re: [SCTP-Discussion] running as setuid
  • Date: Thu Nov 21 14:37:01 2002
  • List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>
  • Organization: University of Essen

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Stefan,

the opening of a raw socket requires root privileges.
After that you can basically drop this privilege.
We had the hooks in the code to do that at some point
(all in adaptation.c) but that was removed for some
reason.

Regards,
Andreas

On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:43, Stefan Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell me thich SCTP library calls (sctplib-1.0.0-pri19) actually
> need root access?
>
> I want tu run a program as setuid and switch euid to avoid giving it root
> privileges all the time.
>
> Regards
> Stefan Jansen

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