Hello, On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 07:41:41AM -0600, ghe wrote: > On 2/21/19 11:12 AM, 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. > > Fix: 'alias ping="sudo ping"' in .bashrc. I'm on Buster too :-)
After a normal install, /bin/ping should end up with the capabilities such that it can do what it needs to do. These are: $ getcap /bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep If yours has not ended up with those capabilities, I think that is a bug in whatever method of install you have used. Glenn, and Andrei, do you do anything out of the ordinary to install? Myself I have seen this happen when untarring the operating system as by default tar does not store or re-apply such capabilities. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
