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Date:      Fri, 09 Feb 1996 14:32:27 -0500
From:      zoogy@cris.com (Chad Shackley)
To:        "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping
Message-ID:  <199602092229.RAA14062@fs1.cris.com>

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>> What do I need to change to allow users to ping?
>
>You need to unbreak the permissions on the ping binary.
>
>-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  114688 Feb  5 17:14 /sbin/ping*

An ls -l on ping shows:

 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  bin  118784 Nov 16 01:49 /sbin/ping

And nobody else except root can do a ping without getting

ping: socket: Permission denied

I must have access to ping itself because if I type ping I get the command 
line options for it.

Chad





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