Bug 795788

Summary:	tracepath resides in /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Anton Samsonov <avsco>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 42.3
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Description Anton Samsonov 2012-12-22 08:04:01 UTC

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In the 'man tracepath' one can read:

> DESCRIPTION
>       ... It is similar to traceroute, only does not require superuser privileges...
>       ...
> SECURITY
>       ... tracepath is not a privileged program, unlike traceroute, ping
>       and other beasts of this kind. tracepath may be executed by everyone
>       who has some access to  network, enough to send UDP datagrams
>       to investigated destination using given port.


But when run by unprivileged user, an error message appears:

> $ tracepath
> Absolute path to 'tracepath' is '/usr/sbin/tracepath', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root).


If the full path is specified, then it seems to function normally:

> $ /usr/sbin/tracepath www.opensuse.org
> 1:  mygate.mydom.tld                                      0.084ms pmtu 1500
> ...


If the binary is copied or moved to /usr/bin, then the program runs without any complaints when called by name without the full path. So I suppose it's just a placement error.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2016-03-09 10:05:33 UTC

bug squash: this defect seems orphaned

/sbin/tracepath is the current location

Comment 2 Christian Boltz 2016-03-09 11:48:18 UTC

(In reply to Marcus Schaefer from comment #1)
> bug squash: this defect seems orphaned
> 
> /sbin/tracepath is the current location

That's exactly what the bug is about - tracepath is usable by users (without root permissions), so it should move to /bin/ or /usr/bin/ so that users have it in $PATH.

Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2016-03-09 12:20:21 UTC

(moving from 12.2 to tumbleweed, since this issue still exists there)

Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2016-03-11 09:18:18 UTC

all right thanks for the update, I'm not maintaing iputils anymore and won't have time to address this. Thus sending to the screening

Comment 5 Anton Samsonov 2018-02-23 18:05:13 UTC

Still there in 42.3, but looks like having been fixed in the upcoming 15.0.