[arch-general] must be root to ping?

[Jayesh Badwaik]

Ping requires/uses setuid. Probably, the new update was not compiled
properly.
On 14-Jul-2012 8:27 PM, "David Benfell" <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:

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> Hey all,
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> Did I miss something? I now have to use sudo in order to ping:
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> graton% ping 10.1.0.1
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
> graton% sudo ping 10.1.0.1
> PING 10.1.0.1 (10.1.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 10.1.0.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.407 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.0.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.367 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.0.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.345 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.0.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=0.361 ms
> ^C
> - --- 10.1.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2997ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.345/0.370/0.407/0.022 ms
>
> I thought maybe this was related to the glibc mess, so I finished
> cleaning that up (now everything is in /usr/lib with a symbolic link
> created for /lib), but that annoyance made no difference.
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> - --
> David Benfell
> benfell at parts-unknown.org
>
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