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Re: [vulture@aoi.dyndns.org: Bug#100744: Binary should be in /usr/bin, since it's useful to non-admins.]



Comme Manfred Wassmann disait l'ôt' jour :
> 
> Network load. Keeping users from running expensive traceroute probes when
> a simple ping would suffice.

The current place in /usr/sbin doesn't prevent users to use traceroute.
If you want this, you'd better remove the execution permissions.

> BTW why not simply putting "alias traceroute /usr/sbin/traceroute" into
> the default /etc/profile?  Anyone who doesn't want it can simply comment
> it out or unalias it later.

And what about people not using bash ? This kind of solution is really
ugly.

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