RE: Traceroute permissions

[Adrian Buxton <abuxton internal ozemail com au>]

The 's' basically means that the program executes as the owner of the file.

traceroute is owned by root, and when executed by anyone it runs as root -
this can be used as a huge exploit though so be careful.

Adrian


-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Helmer [mailto:redhat cr637987-a crdva1 bc wave home com]
Sent: Monday, 22 March 1999 17:59
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Subject: Re: Traceroute permissions


> Hello!
>
> I copyed traceroute to usr/local/bin and tried to run as a user, and could
>not either. To get it to work, I used this command
>chmod 744 traceroute
>chmod a+xs traceroute
>
> Hope that helps ya. = -]

Great! That worked like a charm.

BTW, for the record, do you know what the a+xs option does exactly?

Cheers,
Liam


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