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From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/28741 CVS commit: [netbsd-2] src/sbin/ping
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:10:49 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	bouyer
 Date:		Sat Aug 11 14:10:48 UTC 2007
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/sbin/ping [netbsd-2]: ping.c
 
 Log Message:
 Pull up following revision(s) (requested by ghen in ticket #11352):
 	sbin/ping/ping.c: revision 1.83 - 1.85
 PR/28741: Michael Santos: ping does [not] drop root privileges
 Moved socket calls way up, and called seteuid(getuid()).
 On 2nd thought, setuid() is better here.
 Change error message to say "setuid", forgotten in previous commit.
 Pointed out by Ray Lai, thanks!
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.75.4.1 -r1.75.4.2 src/sbin/ping/ping.c
 
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