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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:59:00AM -0500 or thereabouts, David Olsen wrote: |
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> Am I the only one that finds the newest changes to traceroute nothing but a |
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> large inconvenience? |
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Well, I can't speak for everyone else, but I certainly find the changes |
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welcome. |
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> As near as I can figure, if I install traceroute, I want to use it, not muck |
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> with permissions or su - everytime I care to do some network analyzation. |
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This is going to sound inflammatory, but I truly don't mean it as such. |
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That said, this is the mentality that caused Microsoft so many problems |
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with their products over the year. They made a conscious decision that |
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usability concerns would (almost) always trump security concerns. That |
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led to lovely things like new shares having "Anyone/Full Control" |
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permissions by default. |
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At least on my servers, the only people I want using tools like |
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traceroute/tracepath are those folks who are responsbible for administering |
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them. Those are the same people who have root access on the server, so |
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requiring them to type 'sudo' in front of the command isn't overly |
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burdensome, imo. |
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--kurt |