Re: why does "ls -l /usr/bin/ping" render in color normally used for setuid executables?

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On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   i'm puzzled by something i just tripped over on my fully-updated f31
> system ... while mucking around with some networking, i happened to
> run:
>
>   $ ls -l /usr/bin/ping
>
> and was surprised to see it rendered in the colour scheme (yellow
> letters on red background) normally reserved for setuid executables. i
> looked closer but saw nothing amiss:
>
>   $ ls -l /usr/bin/ping
>   -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 83136 Jul 25 13:28 /usr/bin/ping
>   $
>
> running "lsattr" on that executable didn't seem to show anything
> unusual, and all of the other executables under /usr/bin that are
> rendered in that colour scheme are, indeed, setuid. am i
> misunderstanding something really trivial?

  oh, wait, this is a capabilities thing, isn't it?

rday
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