Re: [vulture@aoi.dyndns.org: Bug#100744: Binary should be in /usr/bin, since it's useful to non-admins.]
Sami Haahtinen <ressu@uusikaupunki.fi> wrote:
> heh, well sayed.. 'trying to make it hard for users to use traceroute'
> this is exactly the point. making things easy or hard. i don't see any
> reason to keep users from accessing traceroute anyways. Is there any
> reason for this?
Yes, here is one:
If the admin decides to not let users use the traceroute command for
whatever reasons, he can switch the setuid bit off. It'd be a bit weird
if traceroute were in /usr/bin with the setuid bit off, wouldn't it?
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