On Wed 05 Mar 2014 at 22:48:08 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> Correction

If you are going to offer one, so will I. :)

You were referencing the line in the article which has

   If you copy ping, it loses its setuid bit and fails to work

This is correct for 'cp /bin/ping'; either the suid bit or the
capabilities is lost. 'cp -a /bin/ping' preserves the suid bit or
capabilities.


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