icmp Operation not permitted message on ping

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:20:05 -0700
don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Sorry to be back again. My mail and browser work, and I can ping as 
> root. When I try to ping as a user I get:
> 
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
> 
> There is probably a group that I need to add to my profile, but it
> was not obvious to me. Suggestions welcome. Is there a way to add
> groups to my account without using system-config-users?

There's no special ping group... 

what does 'rpm -V iputils' show? I bet you lost somehow the capability
bits set on ping. 

% getcap /bin/ping
/bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep

if rpm -V iputils shows ping is wrong, do a 'yum reinstall iputils' 

kevin
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