Re: Bug#286838: ITP: wakeonlan -- Sends 'magic packets' to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:36:39PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Does this do anything that etherwake doesn't?
> >
> > It allows itself to be executed by non-root users - the short
> > description has been updated to include this.
>
> Is that by running setuid root? Couldn't etherwake do the same?
No, wakeonlan sidesteps this by sending the 'magic packets' as
UDP - etherwake uses something different.
(Etherwake appears to have support for running as setuid, but
the Debian package doesn't ship it that way).
Steve
--
Reply to: