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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:09:59 +0200
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bri <brian@ukip.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wheel and staff user question
Message-ID:  <20020720140959.GA6568@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBKKNOEKKNLLNMEOHFAEGGIFAA.brian@ukip.com>
References:  <NEBBKKNOEKKNLLNMEOHFAEGGIFAA.brian@ukip.com>

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:46:44AM +0100, Bri wrote:
> I have the previous sparc64 snapshot installed and haven't yet upgraded to
> the lastest one as yet. But when I create a new user for wheel of staff
> group and then try and traceroute to somewhere from within those users it
> comes back with this
> 
> %traceroute www.icq.com
> traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted
> 
> all though ping works fine which is also icmp
> 
> %ping 80.192.165.1
> PING 80.192.165.1 (80.192.165.1): 48 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 80.192.165.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=122.848 ms
> ^C
> --- 80.192.165.1 ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 122.848/122.848/122.848/0.000 ms
> 
> is this something to do with pam authentification if so how do I fix it for
> just the wheel group user.

You need to use the p option to tar to preserve permissions, the
problem is that traceroute is not suid root.

tar zxfp distrib.tgz

is your friend

/Jesper

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