tech-net: Removal of the root permission check for SIOCADDMULTI/SIOCDELMULTI (was: CVS commit: src/sys/net)

Subject: Removal of the root permission check for SIOCADDMULTI/SIOCDELMULTI (was: CVS commit: src/sys/net)
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@NetBSD.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/20/2005 23:05:52

Hello,

is it really a good idea to allow that action?

Even for deleting?

Bernd

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:23:05PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	christos
> Date:		Fri May 20 16:23:05 UTC 2005
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/net: if_gif.c if_gre.c
> 
> Log Message:
> PR/30285: Mile Nordin: incorrect permission check joining/leaving multicast
> groups.
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -r1.50 -r1.51 src/sys/net/if_gif.c
> cvs rdiff -r1.56 -r1.57 src/sys/net/if_gre.c
> 
> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> copyright notices on the relevant files.
>