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Bug 564906 - net-analyzer/arping - add filecaps support
Summary: net-analyzer/arping - add filecaps support
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Netmon project
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Reported: 2015-11-04 23:01 UTC by Nick Kossifidis
Modified: 2015-11-10 17:10 UTC (History)
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Description Nick Kossifidis 2015-11-04 23:01:24 UTC
arping just like ping and netselect uses RAW sockets to work. iputils (ping) supports both the suid and the filecaps USE flags allowing unprivileged users to execute ping with the option of using file system capabilities (cap_net_raw+ep) instead of the suid bit

arping doesn't have these USE flags and users only have the option to switch to root in order to execute it (which is a greater risk than the suid bit most of the time)
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-11-10 05:21:54 UTC
Added in -r3.
Comment 2 Nick Kossifidis 2015-11-10 17:10:35 UTC
Thank you !