On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 07:54:44PM +0200, Tuomas Kulve wrote: > hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > > There's a big difference between setuid root ahd having to be root. > > Ping is just a link to busybox and setting busybox as setuid wouldn't > probably be a good solution either. How about a /usr/bin/ping like this #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/sudo /bin/ping "$@" with user ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ping in /etc/sudoers? In the default $PATH /usr/bin comes before /bin, so it would work. Marius Gedminas -- World domination. Fast. -- Linus Torvalds -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071230/c9d4a780/attachment.pgp