Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2010-03-23 15:18, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>> module_param(ip_list_perms, uint, 0400); >>> -module_param(ip_list_uid, uint, 0400); >>> -module_param(ip_list_gid, uint, 0400); >>> +module_param(ip_list_uid, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); >>> +module_param(ip_list_gid, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); >>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_tot, "number of IPs to remember per list"); >>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_pkt_list_tot, "number of packets per IP address to remember (max. 255)"); >>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_hash_size, "size of hash table used to look up IPs"); >>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_perms, "permissions on /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); >>> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_uid,"owner of /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); >>> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_gid,"owning group of /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); >>> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_uid, "default owner of /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); >>> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_gid, "default owning group of /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); >>> >> So what will be updating the permissions of the existing proc files? >> > > The administrator with the use of chmod/chown/chgrp. > I'm not sure whether this will have the desired effect. I vaguely recall that proc used to forget about permission changes. That might have been fixed, but I was unable to find something in the changelogs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html