Re: ping not allowed??

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@linux64 ~]$ ping google.com PING google.com (167.206.10.221) 56(84) bytes of

[FIXED] ping not allowed??

I reinstalled iputils-20140519-4.fc21.x86_64 and problem went away. On 03/07/2015 05:05 PM, jd1008 wrote: $ ping google.com ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted Is ping supposed to be an suid to root cmd? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: ping not allowed??

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 5:05 PM, jd1008 wrote: > $ ping google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > > Is ping supposed to be an suid to root cmd? No, it uses file capabilities to obtain only the specific permissions it needs. You can set it straight by running as root: # setcap

ping not allowed??

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