[maemo-users] Missing OS2008 cmdline apps

[From: inode0]

On Dec 30, 2007 11:13 AM, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:
> Ari Yrjölä wrote:
> > hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:
> >
> >
> >> That's bizarre.  What security implications are there in ping that would
> >> mean it has to be run only by root?  Forcing people to use root when not
> >> necessary is itself a security problem.
> >>
> >
> > I guess ping requires root, because it's not a separate binary but
> > included in busybox. /bin/ping is just a symlink to /bin/busybox,
> > which is not setuid root, for obvious reasons.
> >
> >
>
> Others, such as vi and pwd also link to busybox, but can still be run by
> user.

vi and pwd do not require the use of raw sockets.

John