Re: bin/38353: unprivileged network programming from shell is not possible in base system

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:30:00PM +0000, mvertes%free.fr@localhost wrote:
 > The only generic way to access the TCP network from the shell in
 > the bare system (no pkgsrc) is to use mount_portal(8) which is
 > still tagged as experimental, does not provide UDP, and requires
 > root priviledge to be mounted.
 >
 > >Fix:
 > add netcat (/bin/nc) from openbsd or freebsd to the base system.

So, er, what's wrong with using netcat from pkgsrc?

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David A. Holland
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