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Re: [cobalt-users] ping
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ping
- From: flash22@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri Nov 3 17:35:50 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, 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)
You don't, it's a kernel requirement, you must be UID 0 to send low level
network packets, , the traditional way to do this is to make ping suid,
thi i don't really recommend it, ping has seen a few hacks....