Adam McKenna writes: > Traceroute is an admin tool, but not all admins have root, which is > WHY I suggested the default ownership/permissions be changed. traceroute has been used, for legitimate technical reasons, by users who are not in any way administrators of the machine it is installed on, for years. (...and from locations other than /usr/sbin too, on certain non-Debian systems, as it happens.) ttfn/rjk