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Re: [cobalt-users] ping
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ping
- From: Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Nov 1 07:51:01 2000
- Organization: Cobalt Networks, Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Dylan O'Donnell wrote:
>
> How can I adjust permissions on icmp (ping) so a particular user, or indeed
> any user can ping. (so you dont require su privs)
>
> Its a raq2.
Ping must be setuid root to run. Due to opening the correct ports.
On our earlier dists, the suid bit was dropped for security concerns
(the less suid root files the better :) ).
You can easily fix this by doing.
[root@host]# chmod u+s /bin/ping
And all users will be able to run ping.
Jeff
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Jeff Lovell
Cobalt Networks, Inc.