> Hmm, still think it's crazy. Maybe that's a missing feature in the
> kernel? Somehow I think that'll never see the light of day.
>
> I looked and my ping is setuid.
>
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 15876 Sep 4 2001 /bin/ping*
Yep, it may be crazy, but that's how it is... Stops people from hacking
into a poorly-protected user account and wreaking all kinds of havoc with
raw sockets. :D So that's why ping is always setuid to root... So that it
will actually WORK. :)
Dave
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