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FS#37856 - [fping] fping6 not installed suid, when fping is.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alex Charrett (acharrett) - Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 20:22 GMT
Last edited by Giovanni Scafora (giovanni) - Saturday, 23 November 2013, 17:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

extra/fping 3.8-1

$ ls -l /usr/bin/fping*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 37284 Nov 17 10:07 /usr/bin/fping
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30516 Nov 17 10:07 /usr/bin/fping6

This means tools such as smokeping that run non-root can use fping successfully but not fping6.

If I chmod 4555 /usr/bin/fping6 then smokeping is then able to use fping6.
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Closed by  Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Saturday, 23 November 2013, 17:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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