traceroute and icmp socket

[Andrew_80]

I can run tracerout as root but I get an error message If I run as a normal user. The error message is :

traceroute: icmp socket: Not owner

I don't believe it is a permission problem since
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 49152 Dec 5 2001 /usr/contrib/bin/traceroute

Does anyone know why this is happenning ?
Is it because of the Firewall ?
If it is how can I overcome this problem.

Thanks

[harry d brown jr]

(1) it's not the permission of "traceroute", it's the socket permissions.

(2) Firewall is NOT causing this error!

(3) check permissions of IP devices (sorry I'm not connected to check my machines).

Do you have this running on any other machine, which doesn't have this problem?

live free or die
harry

[Ron Kinner]

It's not a firewall issue.

It is a permission problem of some kind. Are you sure this is an HPUX? Looks like a VAX error message.

Ron

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Check the permission of /dev/udp should be
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 72 0x00008e Jul 30 14:47 udp

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[T G Manikandan]

The permissions should be as

chmod 4555 traceroute

i.e
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 36864 Aug 25 1998 traceroute

check it out.


Thanks

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Mani you are right.
Just do this as root it will work.
#chmod u+s /usr/contrib/bin/traceroute

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Andrew R.]

My /dev/udp permission is OK. crw-rw-rw-
and I don't think I have to change my
/usr/contrib/bin/traceroute permission which is -r-xr-xr-x for one reason,
I have the same permission running HP-UX 11.0 and I can run traceroute as a normal user !!
By the way the problem occurs on HP-UX11i
Any more ideas ??

Thanks a lot

[Pete Randall]

Andrew,

All my machines, both 11.0 and 11i, have traceroute permissions set thusly:
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 32768 Nov 14 2000 /usr/contrib/bin/traceroute

At least try changing the permissions, you can always change them back if it doesn't fix the problem.

Pete

[Andrew_80]

I changed the permission on /usr/contrib/bin/traceroute and it works, Thanks,
But I can sware to you it works on another N class machine with the normal permission
-r-xr-xr-x

Thanks again