RE: Traceroute permissions

[Adrian Buxton <abuxton internal ozemail com au>]

Did you chmod it so the users have suid permissions on it?

chmod o+s traceroute?

should look like this before:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         19212 Aug  7  1998 traceroute

go to /bin
type chmod u+s traceroute

then should look like

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     bin         19212 Aug  7  1998 traceroute

This should fix your problem (maybe :)

Adrian.


-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Helmer [mailto:redhat cr637987-a crdva1 bc wave home com]
Sent: Monday, 22 March 1999 16:24
To: redhat-list redhat com
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown
Subject: Traceroute permissions


I'm trying to get users on my system to be able to use traceroute... to 
very little success. I've copied it into /bin, and chmod'd it so that the 
users have permissions for the file, etc. They can now run it without 
arguments and get a little message saying "syntax is such and such" etc.

However, when I actually do a traceroute with arguments, I get this error 
message:

traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted.

Anybody know what it is that need permission to let regular users use 
this command?

Thanks,
Liam


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