Re: [cobalt-users] ping

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Lovell wrote:

> 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 :) ).

That's the official reason <smile>?

I always thought the official reason was going to be something like "so
your users can't create a DOS attack" or something a bit esoteric like
that <smile>.

> You can easily fix this by doing.
> 
> [root@host]# chmod u+s /bin/ping
> 
> And all users will be able to run ping.

Been there, done that <smile>.

Jeff
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