Re: [bug-inetutils] ping: ping must run as root

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Anders Juel Jensen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi guys :-)
>
> I just fiddled a little about with pre-release 1.6 on GNU/Linux, and came
> across a little oddity:
>
> address@hidden:~/inetutils-1.6/ping$ ./ping gnu.org
> ping: ping must run as root
>
> Regression?

With the filesystem priviledge capability system in recent kernels,
you theoretically shouldn't need to be root, but in practice you do
right at the moment in order to access SOCK_RAW.  As Sergey noted,
make install will handle that for you.

What would be lovely would be a configure time test for the capability
tool and possible a test to see if the filesystem supports it, and
then set that instead of setting root.  Interested?

Thanks!

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