Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: David Olsen <do@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Changes to traceroute in newest release
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:20:51
Message-Id: 20040114141952.GB36022@linuxpimpz.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Changes to traceroute in newest release by Calum
1 On 2004-01-14 at 07:44:56, Calum <gentoo-security@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > I suggest that the use of groups would better serve this purpose.
3 > E.g. a nettools group, with traceroute, ping, etc chgrp'd and chmod'd 4750.
4 > Using an existing group such as wheel would mean that you would be allowing
5 > them to use /bin/su as well.
6
7 I personally like this idea. My main complaint with the solution now, and
8 most of the other solutions here is that they require you to change
9 something everytime the traceroute package changes.
10
11 -d