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decmips 7.6G: Layered Athena, traceroute

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Nov 19 14:24:04 1993

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 14:23:46 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>

System name:		toxicwaste.media.mit.edu
Type and version:	KN02 7.6G
Display type:		PMAG-BA 

What were you trying to do?
	use traceroute on a layered_athena machine

What's wrong:
	It was not installed setuid root.

What should have happened:
	It should be installed setuid root.

Please describe any relevant documentation references:

(toxicwaste-warlord) in /tmp
Ready> traceroute n1nwh.ampr.org
traceroute: icmp socket: Permission denied
(toxicwaste-warlord) in /tmp
Ready> where traceroute
/usr/etc/traceroute
/afs/net/tools/@sys/traceroute
(toxicwaste-warlord) in /tmp
Ready> cd /usr/etc
(toxicwaste-warlord) in /usr/etc
Ready> pwd
/usr/etc
(toxicwaste-warlord) in /usr/etc
Ready> ls -l traceroute
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        90112 Jul 24  1992 traceroute


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