Allow all traffic for a specific process

Daniela dgw at liwest.at
Wed May 7 07:29:06 PDT 2003


On Wednesday 07 May 2003 06:46, Barry Irwin wrote:
> Morning
>
> One solution may be to run the process as a specific user, and allow all
> traffic to/from that user ?
>
> Have a look in the man page for details on using uid and gid for matching
> traffic.

Thanks, that would be a good idea, but the process needs to access files in my 
home directory.
I don't want my files to be writable by others.
How do I do that?
If there's no other way, I'll play around with the IPFW source to add an 
option. Or would that be too difficult for a newbie?

Daniela



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