On Wednesday 08 February 2006 13:19, Laurent MARTIN wrote: > > on *nix, you have to be root to open a 'raw' socket, which is > > what ping uses (a raw socket of type ICMP). > > Really? I'd never noticed this before: at the office, I'm able to > ping any machine I want from my normal user account. I can explain this. The ping executable on my SuSE 9.3 has the SUID-bit set: armin at fifi:~> ls -la /bin/ping -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 31404 2005-03-19 20:09 /bin/ping If I remove it with "chmod u-s" (as root), then as non-root user I will get this: armin at fifi:~> ping localhost ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted Thus, if you want to be able to ping as user on your N770, root would have to do a "chmod u+s" on the ping-executable. > I'm going to > ask our IT chief for more details on how our accounts are > configured for this. > Thank you very much for your explanation! -- --- May the Source be with you! Linux. --- --- http://www.arminwarda.mynetcologne.de/ --- secure eMail: http://www.gnupg.de/ --- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060208/3340186b/attachment.pgp
