Timeline for Is it safe to grant special permission "s" to traceroute.db?
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| Apr 24 at 18:12 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | 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. | |
| Apr 24 at 15:37 | comment | added | mazda | 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? | |
| Apr 24 at 15:19 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | 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 | |
| Apr 24 at 14:53 | history | edited | mazda | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 24 at 12:52 | history | asked | mazda | CC BY-SA 4.0 |