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Re: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin



Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:

> You may RUN them as a non-root user, but you are running them to perform
> administration tasks. The real test is whether a non-administrative user
> uses these programs. Personally I have used traceroute on almost every
> system I have access to, but I have never send route, ip, ifconfig
> or called sendmail directly on any of those.

I don't see the difference.  All these commands let you diagnose network
problems.
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