Bug 564906

Summary:	net-analyzer/arping - add filecaps support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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 !