netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: allow non-netadmin to query settings

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Message-Id: <20100823.204431.267970668.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: allow non-netadmin to query settings

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:24:18 -0700

> The SNMP daemon uses ethtool to determine the speed of
> network interfaces. This fails on Debian (and probably elsewhere)
> because for security SNMP daemon runs as non-root user (snmp).
> 
> Note: A similar patch was rejected previously because of a concern about
> the possibility that on some hardware querying the ethtool settings
> requires access to the PHY and could slow the machine down.  But the
> security risk of requiring SNMP daemon (and related services)
> to run as root far out weighs the risk of denial-of-service.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied.
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