Bug#611073: [traceroute] please consider use of file capabilities

2011-02-07 Thread Dmitry Butskoy
Daniel Baumann wrote: ---snip--- The upstream source contains a hardcoded test that makes it impossible to use file capabilities (libcap2) with traceroute, i.e., the use of '-I' is checked against superuser accesss. A simple removal of a single test makes the setting of "cap_net_raw" sufficient

Bug#611073: [traceroute] please consider use of file capabilities

2011-02-06 Thread Jakob Hirsch
On 05.02.2011 11:11, Daniel Baumann wrote: > this is a forward of a bug report that a user just made, repeating from > http://bugs.debian.org/611073 > > ---snip--- > The upstream source contains a hardcoded test that makes it > impossible to use file capabilities (libcap2) with traceroute, > i.e.,