Quoting Laurent MARTIN <laurent at gide.net>: > 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? Yes, ping requires root privilege, but most linux distributions ship with ping setuid root: $ ls -l `which ping` -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 30724 Jul 12 2005 /bin/ping ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
