I just emerge'd traceroute, dropped back to my normal user, and it didn't run.
So, I checked the emerge messages and saw this:
<snip!>
* >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r]
/var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-1.4_p12-r5/image//usr/sbin/traceroute
...
[ ok ]
--- /usr/
--- /usr/sbin/
>>> /usr/sbin/traceroute
<snip!>
I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so only
root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be setuid. It
just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only be directly available
to root.
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Jeff Walter
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