Laurent MARTIN wrote: > Hi! > I've installed the IPutils package on my N770 and I've noticed that > I'm not able to ping as "normal" user (aka "user"): > "ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted" > Things work well if I use ping as "root" user (sudo gainroot). Is this > a normal behaviour? on *nix, you have to be root to open a 'raw' socket, which is what ping uses (a raw socket of type ICMP). if you write a little 'c', you'll find you have to be root (or the program must be suid root) in order to do this: socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 1);
