On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

On 04/06/2014 16:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, A. Fortuny wrote:
How to gain temporarily root privileges in a pascal program ? I
need to 'ping' an IP address and for ping to work (Indy 10) I need
to be root.

Why do you need root to ping?

All ports less than 1024 are only usable by the root user.

Michael.

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