This is on RHEL5.
I've changed permissions on /bin/traceroute from 0755 to 0700, however when running ls
Code:
[root@server bin]# stat traceroute
File: `traceroute'
Size: 41248 Blocks: 96 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 196616 Links: 1
Access: (0700/-rwx------) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2016-04-09 02:24:58.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2011-03-28 14:29:47.000000000 -0500
Change: 2016-04-13 14:47:51.000000000 -0500
[root@server bin]# ls -al | grep -i traceroute
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 25 2015 tcptraceroute -> traceroute
-rwx------ 1 root root 41248 Mar 28 2011 traceroute
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 25 2015 traceroute6 -> traceroute
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 25 2015 tracert -> traceroute
There are three softlinks that point to /bin/traceroute and all of them are 777, so does the softlink permissions override /bin/traceroute or will this be a non-issue?
thanks