Re: Solaris privileges to use pinger w/o setuid-root

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:16:14PM +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Frank Fegert wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:25:24AM +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> >>>i did a quick hack and patched Solaris privileges support into pinger.c
> >>>from squid-2.6.STABLE18. This should allow to run pinger w/o setuid-root,
> >>>while still being able to access ICMP-sockets. The $SQUID_USER gets the
> >>>additional PRIV_NET_ICMPACCESS rights via:
> >>> /usr/sbin/usermod -K defaultpriv=basic,net_icmpaccess $SQUID_USER
> >>>
> >>>While probably not so interesting for the general public, could someone
> >>>with a bit more squid-code knowledge than me take a look at the patch?
> >>>I just want to make sure i didn't inadvertedly break something else ;-)
> >>Interesting and useful. Thank you.
> >
> >Thank you for your fast reply. I should add that i didn't invent the
> >wheel here ;-) There is a quite nice documentation on the subject:
> > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4863/chap1-intro-net-01
> >so credits should go towards Sun ;-)
>
> Ah, in which case we have to ask: Is the code copyright available under
> GPL v2 and later Lisences?
>
> The copyright issues have been getting a bit of cleanup lately and we
> don't want to go backwards if possible.

Good point, but (luckyly) IANAL. Sun indicates in the first page of the
document mentioned above, that the information in the document is subject
to Suns or a third partys copyright. Sound like a standard text blob, but
does that also include work derived from the document?

Regards,

        Frank
Received on Wed Feb 06 2008 - 15:20:36 MST