Hi! On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Anibal Vasquez wrote:
Ist there a possibility to set all ports above 1023 on a specific device to be "privileged" so only root can use them? I want to "prevent" users from sniffing e.g. X-sessions...
I don't know how to set ports above 1023 to be privileged, but doing so is not necessary to prevent sniffing. In order to use a NIC to sniff network traffic, it must be in promiscuous mode, which can only be enabled by root. In other words: users are "prevented" from sniffing already. Cheers! Yuri. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- drs. Yuri Robbers phone : +31-71-527-4966 Leiden University fax : +31-71-527-4900 Institute for Theoretical Biology email : robbers@rulsfb.leidenuniv.nl Kaiserstraat 63 2311 GP Leiden PGP 5.0 public key available: the Netherlands Check your favourite hkp server. --------------------------------------------------------------------------