[outages] comcast/sprint oddities

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Howard" <scott at doc.net.au>

> 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

Fair point.

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

I installed it on OpenSUSE 12.1 on my laptop from...

mtr-0.81-3.1.2.i586.rpm

which came from the default repo-oss, and on reinstalling it for check,
I see that it's root:dialout 4750.  So yes, it has SUID, just not the
other permissions.  That's likely not an accident, but all the machines 
I manage, I'm the only real user on, generally.

Cheers,
-- jra
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