Hi. On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:12:12AM -0700, ghe wrote: > Another Busterism, BTW: ping now requires root privileges. It does on > my > computer, anyway. Maybe I made a mistake when I installed -- somebody > sure did.
Ping *always* required root, more precisely, CAP_NET_RAW. So they either made ping root-owned suid, or assigned CAP_NET_RAW capability to it (that's stretch btw): $ /sbin/getcap /bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep So, run "/var/lib/dpkg/info/iputils-ping.postinst configure" (or whatever iputils alternative you have installed), and enjoy sanity restored. PS I should watch who I'm replying to. Reco
