Re: of bash and ...sbin/
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> writes:
> Without going in depth as to what traceroute and ping are (a fruitless flame
> war)
Facts can not build a flame war. Opinions (about "depth" or somesuch)
can.
> suffice it to say that I disagree with your "deeper" comment.
Ok.
> These 'boundaries' are completely arbitrary, since as pointed out earlier,
> Herbert Xu isn't willing to change traceroute.
>
> Perhaps we should ask Dan Quinlan?
Indeed. This way all Linux variants can go through this change.
Traditionally, it was /sbin/traceroute and it makes sense to reverse
this decision only when a new standard mandates it.
[mv /usr/bin/mtr /usr/sbin/mtr ?]
> If it is really to go in sbin, then I shall also take the suid-bit off of
> it, since obviously only root will be using it anyway.
Nope. Users will still want to use it.
FWIW, suid should be replaced by a capability, anyway, sooner or later.
--
Robbe
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