On Monday 09 February 2009 17:29:19 IneedAname wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:35:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > > James Mckenzie <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Yes, there are legit reasons to run as root, one of them is the now > > famous ICMP 'Ping' unavailability issue in Linux. Experts know about > > this and how to work around it. Newbies, used to Windows and how it > > works, just figure that this is restricted to administrators, and switch > > to root to get around it. The proper command, as I have learned through > > years of UNIX administration, is 'su -' but newbies don't know this and > > most just use 'su'. > > Can you point me at a guide for using ICMP 'Ping' without root? > Sorry for being a noob.
You want to look at POSIX capabilities. I keep forgetting which one gives access to raw sockets. Google will know. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
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