(usagi-users 03793) Re: ping doesn't work as normal user?

Ismail Dönmez <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 06:55:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.ipv6.usagi.users
Organization	TUBITAK/UEKAE
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On Sunday 04 February 2007 03:07:38 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> 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.

But the normal ping program  works fine without root?

Regards,
ismail