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- From: rickert@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Warren Rickert)
- Subject: Re: traceroute
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.230356.20600@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:03:56 GMT
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- In <1992Sep12.210628.5967@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
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- >I've been asked why only root can run traceroute on a PI. It is mode 755,
- >but only root can access the necessary socket. Apparently on other
- >platforms you don't have to be root to run it. Any answers out there?
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
- >P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577
- >InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
-
- Only root can open icmp sockets. Ping which also opens icmp
- sockets, is usually given setuid permissions. If you do the same
- for traceroute, then anyone can run it...which is probably how its
- setup on the other platforms.
-