On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:22:50AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Can we just fix this bug first so that people don't install iputils > in setups like FAI or debootstrap and keep wondering why iputils-ping > doesn't work for non-root users?
Please explain how ping is not usable by non-root users? If libcap2-bin
isn't installed, then ping is installed setuid root as it always has
been.
The relevant code from postinst:
if command -v setcap > /dev/null; then
if setcap cap_net_raw+ep /bin/ping; then
chmod u-s /bin/ping
else
echo "Setcap failed on /bin/ping, falling back to setuid" >&2
chmod u+s /bin/ping
fi
else
echo "Setcap is not installed, falling back to setuid" >&2
chmod u+s /bin/ping
fi
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