Listings Question About Ping

[Michael Cronenworth]

Richard Heck wrote:
> When I do:
>      ls /bin/ping
> I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see
> anything special about its permissions. What's up?

Fedora switched[1] from using the suid-bit to capabilities. If you wish 
to see capabilities you can run "getcap" on the file.

$ getcap /bin/ping

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID