Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package
Christoph> tcpdump and traceroute are essential network diagnostic
Christoph> tools.
But only for root.
Christoph> Somehow they need to fit into the scheme. Before the netdiag
Christoph> package I manually changed permissions on all machine I
Christoph> installed because our administrative staff is doing
Christoph> troubleshooting on campus quite frequently.
It's entirely your business what you do on the machines that you admin.
But you are plain WRONG to move binaries from other Debian packages around.
Please don't do that. And Peter is right --- this has to go into the
Guidelines.
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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