traceroute -I Permission denied for root

English Network/Internet
#1

As root I get the following result:

ngssuse:~ # traceroute -nI 10.200.123.45
Note: the -i and -I options were exchangedfor compability with LBL traceroute
Use -I for ICMP, and -i <ifname> to specify the interface name
unable to create ICMP send socket: Permission denied

Is this a bug?

#2

On 04/08/2011 10:06 AM, hattons wrote:
>
> As root I get the following result:
>
> ngssuse:~ # traceroute -nI 10.200.123.45
> Note: the -i and -I options were exchangedfor compability with LBL
> traceroute
> Use -I for ICMP, and -i<ifname> to specify the interface name
> unable to create ICMP send socket: Permission denied
>
>
> Is this a bug?

For me, ‘sudo traceroute -nI 192.168.1.50’ works from my regular login. It
appears to be a problem with your system, not a general one.

#3

What do you get from

rpm -q --whatprovides traceroute

?

I get net-tools-1.60-747.1.i586

I am at the mercy of IPS devices which are preventing me from getting updates. I’m wondering if this might be an RPM version issue.

#4

This sounds like the same problem nrickert encountered in another thread not two days ago. Search for it.

#5

On 04/08/2011 05:28 PM, Larry Finger wrote:

> For me, ‘sudo traceroute -nI 192.168.1.50’ works from my regular login.
> It appears to be a problem with your system, not a general one.

but, you have ‘hacked’ your user PATH to include /usr/sbin/, or you
have set up /usr/sbin/traceroute in sudoers, or (maybe other things i
don’t know about), witness:


denverd@openSUSE11-3:~> sudo traceroute -nI 192.168.1.50
root's password:
sudo: traceroute: command not found
denverd@openSUSE11-3:~> su -
Password:
openSUSE11-3:/ # traceroute -nI 192.168.1.50
Note: the -i and -I options were exchangedfor compability with LBL
traceroute
Use -I for ICMP, and -i <ifname> to specify the interface name
traceroute to 192.168.1.50 (192.168.1.50), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
using ICMP
1  * * *
<snip>

NOTE: i do not know the answer to the OPs question…and, apparently
neither does anyone else here: http://tinyurl.com/4ypnqns
maybe this should be raised on the mail list…

–
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [NNTP via openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 +
Thunderbird3.1.8] Can you believe it? This guy Ralph wins $181 million
in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just
2 days later. Talk about LUCK!

#6

See this earlier thread:

Is traceroute broken in 11.4?

It has already been reported as a bug (see link in the old thread). The bug report lists the problem as “fixed” and gives a link to a test package. I don’t know whether the fix will be pushed as an update to 11.4. In any case, the old thread explains what to do in apparmor settings to resolve the problem.