7 Mar
2015
7 Mar
'15
6:10 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 5:05 PM, jd1008 jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
$ ping google.com ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
Is ping supposed to be an suid to root cmd?
No, it uses file capabilities to obtain only the specific permissions it needs.
You can set it straight by running as root: # setcap cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+ep /usr/bin/ping
-T.C.