ping requiers root privs

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 7 07:51:45 UTC 2008


On Monday 07 April 2008, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Ping tries to open a raw socket and only root can do that.

and ?  this is how ping works.  you get the same exact behavior with standard 
ping on any other system.
-mike
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