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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Does 'route flush' work?
Date: 18 Aug 1994 18:43:30 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Playing with your mind
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In-reply-to: jbrown@umi.com's message of Thu, 18 Aug 1994 13:47:38
In article <jbrown.70.000DCBAF@umi.com> jbrown@umi.com (Jim Brown) writes:
You have to be root to use the route add/delete/flush commands.
You will have to modify your script to run setuid root (<--A SECURITY HOLE)
or write a wrapper C program to call route that you can make setuid root.
Note that pppd runs as setuid root, so if you use the /etc/ppp/ip-up
and /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts to work out these things, you'll have no
problems using the route command.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
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