Re: [gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root

2017-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/05/2017 01:49, Adam Carter wrote: > I want to allow some fairly well trusted users the ablilty to do traces > with icmp. I can give them sudo, but how high is the risk of making > traceroute suid root? AFAIK making text editors or anything that has an > ability to run shell commands suid

Re: [gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root

2017-05-10 Thread John Runyon
On May 11, 2017 1:49:05 AM GMT+02:00, Adam Carter wrote: >I want to allow some fairly well trusted users the ablilty to do traces >with icmp. I can give them sudo, but how high is the risk of making >traceroute suid root? AFAIK making text editors or anything that has an

Re: [gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root

2017-05-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On May 11, 2017 1:49:05 AM GMT+02:00, Adam Carter wrote: >I want to allow some fairly well trusted users the ablilty to do traces >with icmp. I can give them sudo, but how high is the risk of making >traceroute suid root? AFAIK making text editors or anything that has an

[gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root

2017-05-10 Thread Adam Carter
I want to allow some fairly well trusted users the ablilty to do traces with icmp. I can give them sudo, but how high is the risk of making traceroute suid root? AFAIK making text editors or anything that has an ability to run shell commands suid root is effectively giving them root access, but