hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes: > That's bizarre. What security implications are there in ping that would > mean it has to be run only by root? Forcing people to use root when not > necessary is itself a security problem. I guess ping requires root, because it's not a separate binary but included in busybox. /bin/ping is just a symlink to /bin/busybox, which is not setuid root, for obvious reasons.
