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  • are you root? you should be able to set SetUID if you are. its entirely a different question as to whether the app runs properly that way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid
    – Frank Thomas
    Commented Apr 24 at 15:19
  • setting SETUID is not a problem, the question is: if I do it, am I taking a risk? If I only could understand why Debian add a special permission to inetutils-traceroute but not to traceroute?
    – mazda
    Commented Apr 24 at 15:37
  • on its face, yes it should be safe. not sure it will work, but as long as there are no privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the implementation, it should be fine.
    – Frank Thomas
    Commented Apr 24 at 18:12