Ari Yrj?l? wrote: > 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. > > Others, such as vi and pwd also link to busybox, but can still be run by user. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
