ping requiers root privs

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Mon Apr 7 09:02:53 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 03:51 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

ehh, serves me right for not thinking before posting. I had lost the
s-bit on busybox :(

 Jocke




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