From: Julien TOUCHE (julien.touchelycos.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 14:44:59 CDT

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Ted Unangst wrote on 01/09/2006 21:21:
>> seems fping runs a root check which cannot be overcome by a switch (at
>> least in man)
>> even if the policy of fping is with "as root" for everything it can't
>> run ...
>> anything beyond editing the code ?
>
> tried setting the policy to have getuid return an error of 0?
>
>

isn't it limited to a deny (returning an errorcode) ? so how ?

native-getuid: permit

native-getuid: permit[0] => error
native-getuid: permit as root => error

Regards

                Julien

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