From 06ba111fdb44596c0a8e5a038809b0056991821e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mats Erik Andersson Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:42:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] traceroute: Remove test of effective UID. The evaluation of geteuid() is removed in order to better accomodate systems using file capabilities. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ src/traceroute.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b77093a..39603a7 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2011-01-25 Mats Erik Andersson + * src/traceroute.c (main): Remove test on getuid(). + +2011-01-25 Mats Erik Andersson + * src/logger.c (host_family) [HAVE_DECL_GETADDRINFO]: New variable. (struct logger_sockaddr) [HAVE_IPV6]: New component SINET6. (open_socket) [HAVE_DECL_GETADDRINFO]: Implement new code based diff --git a/src/traceroute.c b/src/traceroute.c index 7605284..d585497 100644 --- a/src/traceroute.c +++ b/src/traceroute.c @@ -199,9 +199,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) || getaddrinfo (hostname, NULL, &hints, &res)) error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "unknown host"); - if (geteuid () != 0) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, EPERM, "insufficient permissions"); - memcpy (&dest, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen); dest.sin_port = htons (opt_port); -- 1.7.2.3