On Wednesday 29 May 2019 07:46:50 pm Andy Smith wrote: > 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
the default $PATH the installer sets up for $users, apparently does not include any of the sbin's, only /usr/bin and /bin. I've been fixing that for several generations of debian installs. Probably shouldn't as there may be some good reason for it, but it is MY machine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
