ping now impossible?

[Harald Hoyer]

On 18.07.2014 14:22, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Yesterday, I could run ping. This morning I installed updates
> which came with a new kernel, and all attempts to ping
> generate this:
> 
> tomh> ping marmot
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
> 
> I now have to use sudo in front of ping to make it work.
> 
> What the heck happened with this round of updates?
> 
> (I see iputils was also an update this morning).
> 


$ getcap /usr/bin/ping
/usr/bin/ping = cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+ep