Hi Cindy, On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 09:48:44PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > So, yeah, at least for Debootstrap. "iputils-ping" is in there at the > absolute very first start where the Developers have picked the very > first packages that get the party started before the User then picks > everything else...
That's not the issue at hand. The issue is whether the file /bin/ping retains the file capabilities. People who have a /bin/ping that only works as root are missing these: $ getcap /bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep If they didn't have the package installed at all then it would be a very different and more obvious error that was presented. So my question is, are installs done by debootstrap somehow losing the file capabilities? I ask because in this thread, one of the other people reporting a /bin/ping without the correct capabilities did their install through debootstrap. If you've just done a debootstrap, what does getcap return for the /bin/ping that got installed? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
