On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:24, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:30:11 +0200, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > However, from everything I > > know about bit torrent (I don't use it myself) I had thought that it > > would only establish connections WHILE you were downloading something. > > > > Any ideas/suggestions? > > Pull the plug. (I mean the Ethernet cable.) Seriously, you mean there's a > process running which ifup's eth0? That requires root permissions. What > process would that be? The only thing that he runs that runs setuid anything that I know of is GDM and I believe X. (If I'm not mistaken X runs suid root?) But that's it. He's logged in as himself, not as root, and he doesn't run any programs as root. All he really uses the computer for is email, chat, web browsing, and downloading. I know evolution doesn't run suid, I know gaim doesn't run suid, I know galeon doesn't run suid, I know bit torrent and gtk-gnutella don't run suid, so I'm rather lost. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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