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Old 10-17-2004, 03:23 AM   #1
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firestarter must use root


I need to be logged into root to use firestarter. Can I running it as a regular user?
 
Old 10-17-2004, 06:00 AM   #2
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nope. firestarter is a low level application. it's implicitly a horrible idea for a normal user to be able to mess around with a firewall...

what you can do is something like setting the firestarter executable to suid, i.e. it runs with the permissions of the owner of the file, rather than the executer, which is what normally happens. run "chmod +s /usr/bin/firestarter" or wherever firestarter is, then a normal user should be ok. please realise why this is conceptually bad idea though...
 
Old 10-17-2004, 06:06 AM   #3
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To access the firewall su to root.
su -
Enter root password.
 
  


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