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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:26:16
Message-Id: 200704120923.26681.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness by Jeff Walter
1 On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote:
2 > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so
3 > only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be
4 > setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only be
5 > directly available to root.
6
7 this package has always sucked ... it needs to be punted for the newer one at
8 http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute
9 -mike

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