On 3/9/06, Launce <user-20423b823da1@xymon.invalid> 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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