ping not allowed??

[Doug]

On 03/07/2015 07:05 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> $ ping google.com
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
>
>
> Is ping supposed to be an suid to root cmd?
>

Here's my ping to Google and the replies. No root required.

[doug at linux64 ~]$ ping google.com
PING google.com (167.206.10.221) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 167.206.10.221: icmp_req=1 ttl=60 time=33.1 ms
64 bytes from 167.206.10.221: icmp_req=2 ttl=60 time=17.9 ms
64 bytes from 167.206.10.221: icmp_req=3 ttl=60 time=28.8 ms
64 bytes from 167.206.10.221: icmp_req=4 ttl=60 time=15.2 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.248/23.781/33.152/7.426 ms