Hi Jason, On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 04:18:51PM -0500, Jason wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 08:12:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > While I didn't mention it in this thread, ping had indeed somehow lost > > its capabilities on my system. 'dpkg-reconfigure iputils-ping' fixed it. > > That worked for me (I'm not the OP) with Stretch on an ARM board. Before > running the above command, I could only ping as root or using sudo, now > I can ping as a normal user. Thanks!
How did you install this system? Because /bin/ping is supposed to come with file capabilities such that the user can allow it to do what it needs to do (this is part of what 'dpkg-reconfigure iputils-ping' restores). So it would be interesting to know how the system was installed in case there is a general theme for those who never got those capabilities. One other person in this thread said they used (a script which ultimately uses) debootstrap. Cheers, Andy
