Re: bin/38353: unprivileged network programming from shell is not possible in base system

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/38353; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/38353: unprivileged network programming from shell is not 
possible in base system
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 03:21:22 +0000

 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:30:00PM +0000, mvertes%free.fr@localhost wrote:
  > The only generic way to access the TCP network from the shell in
  > the bare system (no pkgsrc) is to use mount_portal(8) which is
  > still tagged as experimental, does not provide UDP, and requires
  > root priviledge to be mounted.
  >
  > >Fix:
  > add netcat (/bin/nc) from openbsd or freebsd to the base system.
 
 So, er, what's wrong with using netcat from pkgsrc?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost