Re: [LUG] ping -R

[Jon Still <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Simon Waters wrote:

> Some Linux distro's have removed the SUID bit on traceroute as
> it was getting a reputation to rival sendmail, rpc.statd and
> lpd.

Most of them do have it SUID as needs root privs to create a raw socket
and otherwise ordinary users wouldn't be able to run it.

J.

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