[hobbit] Fping ...

Rob MacGregor rob.macgregor at gmail.com
Thu Mar 9 20:55:45 CET 2006


On 3/9/06, Launce <lhaught at broadline.tv> wrote:
> however when running an ls -al it shows:
>
> -rwxrwxrwt   1 root    root      47723 Mar  7 10:53 fping
>
> any ideas?

Well, that's not suid root.  It should look something like
"-rwsr-xr-x".  As already mentioned, being world writable is a *bad*
thing.  You chould remove it, reinstall from source and then make it
SUID root (chmod +s).

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