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list Rob MacGregor
Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:55:45 +0000
Message-Id: <user-bc73376fe711@xymon.invalid>

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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