On Monday 2012-10-22 16:43, Steffen Heil (Mailinglisten) wrote: >Hi > >On my system /bin/ping has suid-bit set. >So it it always executed as root, not as the user invoking it. > >As far as I know, ping requires root privileges... Linux supports socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_ICMP) since v3.0, so ping does not _strictly_ need root anymore - and meanwhile fixes your owner "mismatch". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
