(usagi-users 03795) Re: ping doesn't work as normal user?

On Monday 05 February 2007 02:44:09 Mitsuru Chinen wrote:
[...]
> > But the normal ping program  works fine without root?
>
> You might want to look at the SUID bit of the pre-installed ping
> in your system.
>
>   $ ls -l /bin/ping
>   -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 39496 2006-11-25 21:17 /bin/ping
>      ^         ^^^^

Well thats news to me, thanks!

Regards,
ismail