icmp Operation not permitted message on ping

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/09/2012 03:20 PM, don fisher 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?
>
> Where are these things documented?
>
> Thanks,
> Don

Don, what are the permissions on /bin/ping (ls -al /bin/ping)?  Mine are set to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x) and ping works for me as non-root.

Kevin