[outages] comcast/sprint oddities

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> Note that mtr needs to be both setUID root *and* executable by Other
> in order to work for others than root, assuming you need that.  Neither
> is default.


Or even better, just use setcap to give it permission to open RAW sockets
without having full root access.

setcap 'cap_net_raw=+ep' /usr/bin/mtr

That said, I've never seen an OS that included mtr that didn't have it
setuid by defualt.

  Scott
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