Kameswara Rao M. wrote:
> When a user on my machine runs ping it says ping must run as root.
> What can be the problem. Guess these programs r called setuid programs.
Ping must be made setuid root in order for normal users to use it. You
can do this with
chown root.root /bin/ping
chmod u+s /bin/ping
(or maybe /usr/bin/ping; it depends). In general, you should only make
a program setuid if its documentation says that this is safe. Ping
programs are generally designed to be safe when setuid.
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