(usagi-users 03792) Re: ping doesn't work as normal user?

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:07:38 +0900 (JST)

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In article <[email protected]> (at Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:07:54 +0200), Ismail Dönmez <[email protected]> says:

> I git pulled iputils from USAGI git tree but ping doesn't seem to work as 
> normal user :
> 
> [~/GIT/USAGI/iputils]> ./ping www.google.com
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted

It is very normal; each ping{,6} utility needs root privilege to open
raw socket.

--yoshfuji